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Iain Macleod. I cannot help it if every time the Opposition are asked to name their weapons they pick boomerangs. Iain Macleod. The Conservative Party always in time forgives those who were wrong. Indeed often, in time, they forgive those who were right. Iain Macleod. Sourced quotations by the British Politician Iain Macleod (1913 — 1970).
Jan 1, 2002 · In January of 1964 The Spectator published one of the most influential political articles ever written. Innocuously titled "The Tory Leadership," it was by Iain Macleod, the magazine's new editor ...
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.
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Jul 20, 2020 · Greg Wright reports. WHENEVER historians discuss the greatest leaders who never became Prime Minister, their attention is inevitably drawn to the turbulent but momentous career of Iain Macleod ...
It was called ‘The Tory Leadership’ and was written by the editor, Iain Macleod, who had been a senior minister in Harold Macmillan’s government. Purporting to be the review of a book by ...
Jul 13, 2016 · In January 1964, Iain Macleod, the new editor of the Spectator and the former Leader of the Commons who had refused to serve under Home, wrote a review of Randolph Churchill’s The Fight for the Tory Leadership: “Churchill writes: ‘It can be argued that Macmillan did all he could during his seven years as Prime Minister to advance the ...
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 Britain to avoid the imperial traumas which afflicted France and Portugal. If the African ex-colonies choose to remain in the multi-racial Commonwealth, that in large part is due to Iain Macleod. This ...
