January 1976 — reshuffle
Biffen joined Shadow Cabinet from the backbenches as Energy spokesman.
Jenkin moved from Energy to Social Services, replacing Fowler who became spokesman for Transport outside the Shadow Cabinet. Whitelaw replaced Gilmour as Shadow Home Secretary. Gilmour replaced Younger at Defence.
Pym returned at Agriculture (had been absent through illness since April 1975); Jopling resumed his role as Agriculture No. 2.
MT Leader
WHITELAW Dep. Leader, Devolution, Home Affairs
JOSEPH Policy and Research PYM Agriculture
OPPENHEIM Consumer Affairs and Prices
GILMOUR Defence
PEYTON House of Commons
ST JOHN-STEVAS Education and Arts
PRIOR Employment
BIFFEN Energy
RAISON Environment
MAUDLING Foreign and Commonwealth
HESELTINE Industry
NEAVE Northern Ireland
BUCHANAN-SMITH Scotland
JENKIN Social Services
HOWE Treasury
EDWARDS Wales
CARRINGTON House of Lords
HAILSHAM Without portfolio
THORNEYCROFT Chairman
MAUDE Deputy Chairman and CRD Chairman
ATKINS Chief Whip (ex officio)
November 1976 — reshuffle
MT dismissed Maudling; replaced him with John Davies.
Heseltine moved to Environment and replaced at Industry by John Biffen.
Tom King joined the Shadow Cabinet as Energy spokesman.
Teddy Taylor joined the Shadow Cabinet as Trade spokesman.
Pym took over devolution and House of Commons.
Peyton replaced Pym shadowing Agriculture.
MT Leader
WHITELAW Deputy Leader and Home Affairs
JOSEPH Policy and Research
PEYTON Agriculture
OPPENHEIM Consumer Affairs and Prices
GILMOUR Defence
PYM Devolution and House of Commons
ST JOHN-STEVAS Education and Arts
PRIOR Employment
KING Energy
HESELTINE Environment
DAVIES Foreign and Commonwealth
BIFFEN Industry
NEAVE Northern Ireland
BUCHANAN-SMITH Scotland
JENKIN Social Services
TAYLOR Trade
HOWE Treasury
EDWARDS Wales
CARRINGTON House of Lords
HAILSHAM Without portfolio
THORNEYCROFT Chairman
MAUDE Deputy Chairman and CRD Chairman
ATKINS Chief Whip (ex officio)
December 1976 — Buchanan-Smith resignation
Taylor replaced Buchanan-Smith as Scottish Shadow.
John Nott entered the Shadow Cabinet to replace Taylor shadowing Trade.
February 1977 — Biffen resignation
Biffen resigned. Keith Joseph replaced him as Industry spokesman, remaining responsible for Policy and Research.
November 1978 — reshuffle
Francis Pym formally replaced John Davies as Conservative Foreign Affairs spokesman.
Biffen returned to the Shadow Cabinet with responsibility for Small Businesses.
Carlisle replaced St John-Stevas as Education spokesman. St John-Stevas replaced Pym as Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.
MT Leader
WHITELAW Deputy Leader and Home Affairs
JOSEPH Industry, Policy and Research
PEYTON Agriculture
OPPENHEIM Consumer Affairs and Prices
GILMOUR Defence
ST JOHN-STEVAS Devolution and House of Commons
CARLISLE Education and Arts
PRIOR Employment
KING Energy
HESELTINE Environment
PYM Foreign and Commonwealth
BIFFEN Small Businesses
NEAVE Northern Ireland
TAYLOR Scotland
JENKIN Social Services
NOTT Trade
HOWE Treasury
EDWARDS Wales
CARRINGTON House of Lords
HAILSHAM Without portfolio
THORNEYCROFT Chairman
MAUDE Deputy Chairman and CRD Chairman ATKINS Chief Whip (ex officio)
Index
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Aberfan disaster, 142–3
abortion, 150, 152
Abse, Leo, 150
Abyssinia, Italian invasion (1935), 24, 26
Action not Words, 137
Adamson, Campbell, 237
Adenauer, Konrad, 342
Adley, Robert, 269, 271
aerospace industry, 574
Afghanistan: Soviet invasion (1979), 367, 371, 383; US aid, 528
Africa: national identities, 525; economies, 586–9
African National Congress (ANC), 588
Agar, Herbert, 30
aircraft industry, 313
Albania, economy, 593
Alison, Michael, 556
Allon, Yigal, 379
Almond, Mark, 495n
Amery, Julian, 324
Amery, Leo, 55
Amin, Idi, 212
Amis, Kingsley, 78
Andrew, Sir Herbert, 165
Anglo-Soviet Parliamentary Group, 154
Angola, Cuban forces, 349, 361
Anschluss (1938), 26, 29
Anwyl-Harris, Peter, 588n
Any Questions, 260
APEX trade union, 397–8, 401
Arab-Israeli war (1973), 229, 230, 372–3
Argentina, economy, 581, 583
Armstrong, Robert, 37
Armstrong, Sir Thomas, 37
Armstrong, Sir William, 227
art galleries, 179
Ashdown, Lord, 292
Assad, Hafez al-, 376–8
Association of Education Committees, 183
Astaire, Fred, 14
Atkins, Humphrey: MT’s leadership election, 280, 282; relations with Heath, 282–3, 416; MT’s Shadow Cabinet, 282, 285; fall of Labour government, 432–3; election campaign (1979), 447
Atkins, Maggie, 282
Atlantic Charter (1941), 57
Atlas Preservative Company, 65
atomic bomb, 52–4, 175
Attlee, Clement, 44–5, 69
Austen, Jane, 19
Australia: MT’s visit (1976), 387–8; economy, 585–6
Aveling-Barford, 23
Aviation, Ministry of, 117, 206
Aviation Week and Space Technology, 367
Ayittey, George B.N., 586n
Bach Choir, Oxford, 37–8
Backbench Finance Committee, 303
Baker, Kenneth, 274
balance of payments, 115, 142, 230
Balcerowicz, Leszek, 591
Baldwin, Stanley, 26, 44
Balfour of Inchrye, Lord, 72
Baltic states, 589
Bank of England, 571
Barber, Anthony: public spending cuts, 192, 203; Chancellor of Exchequer, 199, 200; Budget (1972), 220; trade figures, 230; TUC negotiations, 232
Barnet Council, 131, 172
Barnet Town Hall, 100, 460
Basnett, David, 446
Bauer, Peter, 587
BBC, 86, 382, 434, 443–4
Beatles, 153
Beckenham constituency, 94
Begin, Menachem, 380
Belgium, linguistic disputes, 524
Bell, Tim, 410–11, 412–13, 458
Bellairs, Charles, 248
Belmont Preparatory School, 106
Belstead, Lord, 165
Benn, Tony, 43, 49, 162, 260, 335
Bergman, Ingrid, 14
Berlin Wall, 117, 508, 517
Bernal, J.D., 39
Berry, Tony, 432
Berwick and East Lothian by-election (1978), 418
Bethell, Lord, 513
Better Tomorrow, A, 160
Bevan, Aneurin, 69
Beveridge, Lord, 44, 87, 120–1, 559
Beveridge Report, 120–2, 559
Bevin, Ernest, 48
Bhutto, Benazir, 383
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, 383–4
Bibby, Joseph, 7
Biedenkopf, Kurt, 344
Biffen, John: economic policy, 115, 221, 265, 310; influence, 225; turns down Shadow Cabinet post, 289; Energy spokesman, 310; Industry, 319, 320; responsibility for small businesses, 418