Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went, as the sun set and the TV lights rose, then came and went again. Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath went on BBC television to praise Home's "integrity, clarity, judgment and perseverance" and to hope "that all our colleagues will be able to serve with him." Selwyn Lloyd insisted "he will make an outstanding Prime Minister." Heading for home and bed just before midnight, Home could only be sure that "I shall be starting work again tomorrow morning...
Faced with five by-elections this month and the highest unemployment rate (2.1%) in three years, impatient Tories have been muttering that line from that old backbench ditty: "Stop dawdling, Maudling." In his first major House of Commons speech since he succeeded Selwyn Lloyd as Chancellor of the Exchequer four months ago, Reginald Maudling last week presented a long-awaited "policy of expansion" that surprised even the most skeptical Tories with its boldness. When he had finished, he left no doubt that the economy was to dawdle no more...
Immediately after the Cabinet purge, however, the Prime Minister's position was very precarious. In one session of Commons, "MacMillan was received in stony silence, while the Tory back-benchers cheered for Selwyn Lloyd ousted Chencellor of the Exchequer...
...Prime Minister sprawled on the government's green leather front bench while Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell called for a censure motion against the government. Gaitskell demanded Macmillan's resignation and an immediate general election, argued that Macmillan's purge of Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd and 15 other Conservative ministers "was the most convincing confession of failure which could have been offered by the government." Liberal Party Leader Jo Grimond likened the Prime Minister's "all-round slaughter" to "the Borgias on one of their more unsavory evenings...
Sympathy for Selwyn. The party's reservations were voiced out loud last week by former Prime Minister Anthony Eden, now Lord Avon, and Tory Kingmaker Lord Salisbury, who both protested that sacked Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd was "harshly treated." Added Eden pointedly: "I have no doubt that Mr. Lloyd will serve the nation again in high office." Macmillan's likeliest successor remains Deputy Prime Minister R. A. ("Rab") Butler, who last week solicitously assured victims of Mac's massacre that he had nothing to do with their demise...