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Enoch Powell is one of the few post-war politicians who has seized the public imagination. Remarkably he has done this without ever holding senior office. He was Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1957–8) and Minister of Health for 3 years, only one of which was in the Cabinet (1962–3). In an age which is not noted for oratory his fame came from his speeches, many of them made outside Parliament.
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See the fine study by K. Phillips, ‘The Nature of Powellism’, in N. Nugent and R. King (eds.), The British Right, (Farnborough: Saxon House, 1977).
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Kavanagh, D. (1990). Enoch Powell: Vision and Waste. In: Politics and Personalities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20961-3_10
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