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Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden,, also known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative Party politician; he was effectively Deputy Prime Minister to Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, although he only held the official title for a brief period in 1962–63. He was one of his party's leaders in promoting the post ...
Richard Austen Butler will always be remembered as the Conservative Party's "uncrowned Prime Minister". On the threshold of No. 10 three times - in 1953, when both Churchill and Eden were ill; in 1957, when he was expected to take over in the wake of Suez; and again in 1963, when an ailing Harold Macmillan blocked his succession. This biography is an engaging portrait of one of the most ...
28 de jun. de 2018 · Rab Butler, 1963-64. Conservative, under Home. You can read about Butler’s early career and his time as chancellor, here; about the period of Suez, his time as home secretary and his failure to become prime minister, here. The said irony is that Rab Butler had always wanted to be foreign secretary; but that by the time he won the office, he no longer had the fire in his belly for it.
Despite his tenure of three of the four Great Offices of State, his popularity with the electorate and the truly revolutionary 1944 Education Act that bears his name, Richard Austen 'Rab' Butler narrowly missed out on the premiership on three separate occasions during his political career, earning him the sobriquet that has attached to his name ever since - The Best Prime Minister That Britain ...
22 de jun. de 2016 · Richard Austen (Rab) Butler, the only minister to serve continuously in the Conservative cabinets of 1951–64, is often described as ‘the best Prime Minister Britain never had’. ‘It is a handle’, wr...
Michael Jago. 3.71. 7 ratings1 review. Despite his tenure of three of the four Great Offices of State, his popularity with the electorate and the truly revolutionary 1944 Education Act that bears his name, Richard Austen ‘Rab’ Butler narrowly missed out on the premiership on three separate occasions during his political career, earning him ...
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