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Iain Norman Macleod (11 November 1913 – 20 July 1970) was a British Conservative Party politician, government minister and journalist. A playboy and professional bridge player in his twenties, after war service Macleod worked for the Conservative Research Department before entering Parliament in 1950. He was noted as a formidable ...
Oct 14, 2022 · Iain Macleod was a British Conservative politician and government minister. He entered Parliament as an MP in 1950. He served as health minister and minister for Labour, before...
Oct 14, 2022 · Iain Macleod was widely seen as a future prime minister. He had captured the leadership of the left wing of the Conservative Party, the long-standing strain of ‘One Nation’ Toryism which, since 1945, had become influenced by quasi-socialist assumptions of state interventionism.
Jul 20, 2020 · Remembering Skipton's Iain Macleod. Fifty years ago, the political world was rocked by the sudden death of the Yorkshire-born Chancellor of the Exchequer, Iain Macleod. Greg Wright reports.
Jul 21, 1970 · LONDON, Tuesday, July 21— lain Macleod, Chancellor of the Exchequer, died of a heart at tack tonight at his official resi dence, 11 Downing Street. He was 56 years old, and under went an...
Jan 1, 2013 · Iain Macleod's conservatism was genuine and strong, but it was always tempered with imagination and compassion. Macleod was the son of a doctor in Skipton, Yorkshire, He represented the...
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Iain Macleod was, with Joseph Chamberlain, one of two great Colonial Secretaries of the 20th century. In the early 1960s, he ensured the rapid ending of Britain's African empire. This allowed...
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