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...Hugh Gaitskell's foredoomed attempt to win a "no-confidence" vote against the government this week, many Tory M.P.s at week's end conceded that Macmillan's new brains trust may pay off by the time he calls a general election, probably in 1964. Party Chairman Iain Macleod started his campaign machine rolling with a 1,000-word letter to constituencies, warning that the party has no room for workers without "the zest that must be an essential part of our appeal." And in a closed meeting with Tory backbenchers, the Prime Minister zestfully echoed another knife...
...economic post in which, despite gloomy expectations, he managed to expand Britain's trade with the Common Market. A tough, pragmatic bargainer who is trusted by the party's right wing (he did not oppose the Suez invasion), he was picked last year to succeed Iain Macleod as Colonial Secretary, has quietly demolished some herculean roadblocks in the path of independence for African territories, notably in reaching agreement last month on a five-year plan to settle 70,000 landless natives on a million acres of Kenya's choice White Highland farmland...
...place. Edward Heath is still Lord Privy Seal in charge of Common Market negotiations; the Colonial Office has been put under the able administration of Duncan Sandys, who already heads Commonwealth Relations; and Lord Home continues as the Foreign Secretary. One surprise to outsiders was the survival of Iain Macleod as party chairman because he is widely blamed for the Tories' repeated defeats. Macmillan feels that this criticism is unfair, that Macleod deserves more time to show what...
...readily forgotten or forgiven." By week's end, openly rebellious Conservative backbenchers were charging that pay inequities were directly responsible for the Tories' sweeping electoral setbacks over the past six months. Smarting from their defeats, many demanded that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan fire Party Chairman Iain Macleod-even though it was he who mapped the strategy that swept the Conservatives back into office in 1959 with the slogan: "You Never Had It So Good." For Harold Macmillan, it had seldom looked...
Conservative chiefs blamed the times, not themselves. Said Tory Party Chairman Iain Macleod: "We're not as a nation confident of our future. We've not as a nation been ready to face the reappraisal that must follow the closing of the chapter of imperial power." Others had a simpler answer. Suggested the solidly Tory Sunday Times: "The country has become fatigued with the same faces expounding the same measures in the same cliches. The Conservative Party is losing its grip on middle-class loyalties, and it bores the public to a pulverizing degree...