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True, the curtain-raising speech by Minister of Power Fred Lee, introducing the motion, was a trifle dull, and the Opposition, led by Iain Macleod, did little more than affirm its determination to denationalize steel if and when it gets into office. But ample suspense was provided by two of Labor's own backbenchers, Right-Wingers Woodrow Wyatt and Desmond Donnelly, who had announced ahead of time that they disagreed with Wilson's plans to nationalize steel, might very well vote against his government and thus endanger his hair-thin majority...
...program as a pogrom. A skit depicting a priest lewdly opposing contraception so offended the nation's Catholics that the BBC was forced to apologize publicly. Fortnight ago, Panelist Bernard Levin called Tory Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home "a cretin." When Guest Panelist and onetime Tory Cabinet Minister Iain Macleod rebuked him for such "crude, vulgar words of abuse," a grinning Levin agreed to change "cretin" to "imbecile...
Delayed Glory. Something of a disappointment also awaited brilliant but unreliable Iain Macleod, still a hero of the Tory youth organizations and leader of a dedicated group of backbenchers in the Commons. Home decided to leave Macleod in the secondary role as chief Tory strategist against Labor's proposed nationalization of the steel industry. Since the Laborites are not expected to press for nationalization soon-with their three-vote margin they can scarcely expect to carry the measure-Macleod is not likely for some time to have a chance for combat or glory...
...Gallup poll showing 68% of all Britons to be in favor of some curbs on immigration-Wilson's Labor government voted to renew the same immigration law it had fought so vigorously in 1961. Kicking off the Tories' campaign against Gordon Walker in Leyton, former Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod chortled, "I welcome, though I despise, Mr. Gordon Walker's abandonment of a cause he advocated so fiercely such a short time...
...bill was a "private member's motion," introduced by Pacifist Sydney Silverman, 69, a Labor M.P. who has fought against the gallows for nearly 30 years. The Conservative Party in the past has opposed abolition, but much support for the bill came from such Tory chiefs as Iain Macleod, Sir Derek Walker-Smith and ex-Home Secretary Henry Brooke. And the voting was "free." M.P.s voted at the urging of their conscience, not as their party dictated...