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Within 48 hours after his victory, Heath announced the appointment of a 17-member Cabinet that will assume day-to-day control over Britain's affairs of state. For the most part, the men around Heath will be the quintessence of the Tory upper crust?prosperous, gregarious, hard-working and expert. The major appointments...
HOME SECRETARY: Reginald Maudling, 53, the Tories' Deputy Leader for the past five years and a merchant banker. A veteran member of Tory Cabinets (former Colonial Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer), Maudling came close to beating Heath for party leadership in 1965, but is now his friend. A relaxed, easygoing man, he must cope with two of the toughest domestic problems, law-and-order and race...
Macleod, 56, a brainy career politician who has served as Heath's Shadow Chancellor and for the past three years has been head of the Tory task force charged with drafting tax reformed Highly able, Macleod takes on the punishing task of running the economy while seriously handicapped by arthritis. LORD CHANCELLOR: Quintin Hogg, 62, who becomes Britain's chief law officer and leader of the House of Lords. A political grandstander and heir to a peerage, Hogg renounced his coronet to run for Commons in 1963, but with his new post has accepted a life peerage...
...Heath is not the man to charge in and start dismantling the Labor-built welfare state. But his Cabinet appointments indicate an appreciable rightward shift under Tory government: probably revamping of Britain's confiscatory income tax and more indirect taxes, less government participation in industry, some opening of government-owned sectors to private capital, belt-tightening in the social services, tougher attitudes on trade-union reform and law-and-order...
...Heath's immediate foreign policy task will be the negotiations that start next week on Britain's application to join the Common Market. Among his domestic concerns, Heath will face the challenge of healing Britain's race problem while the racist oratory of Enoch Powell echoes in his ears. Some Britons believe that the country's race tension will subside as immigrants become more anglicized and bettereducated. Many sociologists are convinced, however, that the crisis will gather for the next decade or two as the sons of ill-educated colored immigrants graduate from British schools and start to compete with...