people

Question 1

R. A. Butler

Answer 1

-‘most famous prime minister the conservatives never had’
-chancellor 51-55

Question 2

Macmillan

Answer 2

-conservative PM 1957-63

Question 3

Anthony Eden

Answer 3

-Conservative PM 1955-57
-caused suez crisis

Question 4

Bevan

Answer 4

-Labour minister of health
-part of bevanite split after prescription charges introduced

Question 5

Gaitskell

Answer 5

-Labour chancellor of the exchequer 1950-51
-failed to reform Labour
-split with Bevan

Question 6

Frank Cousins

Answer 6

-leader of transport and general workers union
-opposed gaitskell over nuclear weapons

Question 7

Alec Douglas-Home

Answer 7

-conservative
-foreign secretary under macmillan and heath 1970-74
-very old

Question 8

Enoch Powell

Answer 8

-conservative MP 1950-70
-notorious for rivers of blood speech

Question 9

Thorneycroft

Answer 9

-conservative MP from 1938
-chancellor of exchequer in 58 then 1960

Question 10

Christian Keeler

Answer 10

-famous prostitute
-sleeping with John Profumo(defence secretary) and soviet spy
-worries about cold war secret leaks

Question 11

Oswald Mosley

Answer 11

-set up Union Movement in 1948
-aimed for European nationalism
-racist toward immigrants

Question 12

Charles De Gaulle

Answer 12

-french prime minister
-veto-ed britain’s application to the EEC

Question 13

Edward Heath

Answer 13

–conservative PM 1970-74

Question 14

Harold Wilson

Answer 14

-Labour PM 1964-70 then 1974-76
-a relatable, “working class”-esque figure
-loves a pipe

Question 15

James Callaghan

Answer 15

-labour chancellor of exchequer 1964
-PM in 1976

Question 16

Roy Jenkins

Answer 16

-labour home secretary under Wilson and chancellor of exchequer
-right of labour
-led SDP in 1981

Question 17

Tony Benn

Question 18

Barbara Castle

Answer 18

-labour mp
-wrote in place of strife