(3) Key people of the Churchills Conservative government 1951-55

(3) Key people of the Churchills Conservative government 1951-55

1. Richard Austen Butler- Chancellor of the exchequer

   • Married an heiress and thus had the brains, connections and money.
   • Became an MP in his twenties and rapiedly promoted to office
   • Classic "insider", more concerned with the practical problems of government than abstract principles or party poltical warfare, which seemed to this as crude and distructive
   • Butler represented all that was best in the traditions of the english ruling class
     • Intelligence
     • Detachment
     • Serve

2. Harold Macmillan - Housing Minister

   • A tragic and complex figure, macmillan was older than either Butler or Eden
   • He married Lady Dorothy Cavendish
   • Macmillan became an Conservative MP for Stockton in 1924 and developed a real affection for it and a real concern for the plight of the unemployed
   • He became a genuine Tory radical and, develpoed a real insight into the "new economic".

3. Sir Antony Eden - Foreign Secretary

   • Edan was from an old gentry family
   • He was appointed Foreign Secretary at 38 and resigned in protest to chamberlin's polices. Churchill appointed him Foreign Sectary again in 1940.
   • He was acknowledged as the leader in waiting