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Tom Alak's avatar

Judged even just in electoral terms, the failure of the Tory left feels massively under-reported and underappreciated. As we are seeing again right now, they always seem to make the same mistake of avoiding doing anything to scare the elites, and dismissing policies that will actually solve the country's problems as extremism - then wondering why voters aren't impressed at the end of it all.

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Eliot Wilson's avatar

Two minor points: Macmillan was not a septuagenarian when he resigned (he was 69); and the Secretary of State for War was not really like the Defence Secretary, as he didn’t sit in cabinet and was subordinate to the Minister of Defence, who did sit in cabinet (and became Secretary of State when the service departments were abolished and the modern MoD created in April 1964 - under Thorneycroft, as it happens).

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