Word: thorneycroft
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...insurance company and increase its income from outside investments. But members are averse to such change. They prize the clubby atmosphere of the high marble halls where the tie that binds is mostly old school. The membership, at last count, included four former cabinet members (Hogg, Maudling, Sandys and Thorneycroft), more than 50 M.P.s, mainly Tory, Tycoons Charles Clore and Sir Isaac Wolfson, Lord Harlech, five dukes, eight marquesses, 39 earls, 90 knights and 113 baronets...
Dangers of Defeat. While losing 51 seats, the Conservatives took not one seat away from another party. Swept out of the House were a dozen former Tory ministers, including onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft, former Aviation Minister Julian Amery, and onetime Minister of Agriculture Christopher Soames. Ted Heath managed to hold on to his seat in the genteel London suburb of Bexley, but his majority fell...
...Professional Decision. Whoever wins will almost surely give the party its first youthful look in decades; the two prime contenders are Reginald Maudling, 48, and Edward Heath, 49. A half dozen other Tories, from the coldly brilliant, right-wing Enoch Powell to the pugnaciously independent Peter Thorneycroft, are given dark horse chances...
...Tories' 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act, but reversed itself and last winter decided to extend the law. The Tories were only too glad to oppose last week's bill on the ground that "the British people can be led, but they cannot be driven." And, when Conservative Peter Thorneycroft proposed that instead of criminal penalties, far less onerous civil sanctions would be "appropriate," Labor's Soskice quickly indicated that his government would be willing to amend the bill and include them...
Another comer on the Tory front bench is Christopher Soames, Winston Churchill's son-in-law, who moved up from Agriculture to replace troublesome Peter Thorneycroft as shadow Defense Minister. Thorneycroft, whose wildly expensive projects for military aircraft had proved embarrassing to Sir Alec, was reassigned to shadow the Home Office, where he will have less chance to get into mischief. The irascible and erratic Quintin Hogg, who had contested Sir Alec's nomination as Prime Minister in 1963, was another casualty: he was replaced as shadow Minister of Education and Science, henceforth assigned only to undefined "special...