Party Relations - Key Facts

Question 1

What did Macmillan do in the Party

Answer 1

Restore Party unity

Question 2

Macmillan’s Chief Whip

Answer 2

Edward Heath

Question 3

Ideology that was beginning to emerge in the Conservative Party

Answer 3

New Right

Question 4

Name of the people involved in the spy scandals

Answer 4

• John Vassall (1962)
• Kim Philby (1963)

Question 5

Controversial Divorce

Answer 5

Argyll Divorce

Question 6

Headless Man was believed to be …

Answer 6

Duncan Sands

Question 7

Government position of John Profumo

Answer 7

Secretary of State for War

Question 8

Name of the person that Profumo had an affair with

Answer 8

Christine Keeler

Question 9

Name of the man who was on trial for living off prostitution

Answer 9

Stephen Ward

Question 10

How was the trial of Stephen Ward connected to the problems of the Rent Act

Answer 10

One of the ‘call girls’ was Mandy Rice-Davis, ex-girlfriend of slum landlord Peter Rachman

Question 11

Name of the events that followed the resignation of Macmillan

Answer 11

The Blackpool Intrigue

Question 12

Two most obvious candidates for the leadership position

Answer 12

• Lord Hailsham - Quintin Hogg
• RAB Butler

Question 13

Name of the person that succeeded Macmillan

Answer 13

Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Question 14

Where was the 1959 Labour Party Conference

Answer 14

Blackpool

Question 15

Where was the 1960 Labour Party Conference

Answer 15

Scarborough

Question 16

Protests that Labour left-wingers joined

Answer 16

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Question 17

Name of Gaitskell’s speech at the 1960 Labour Party Conference

Answer 17

Fight and Fight Again

Question 18

Who replaced Gaitskell

Answer 18

Harold Wilson