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John Enoch Powell MBE (16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998) was a British politician, scholar, and writer. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton South West for the Conservative Party from 1950 to February 1974 and as MP for South Down for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from October 1974 to 1987.
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) The " Rivers of Blood " speech was made by the British politician Enoch Powell on 20 April 1968 to a meeting of the Conservative Political Centre in Birmingham. In it Powell, who was then Shadow Secretary of State for Defence in the Shadow Cabinet of Ted Heath, strongly criticised the rates of immigration from the New ...
Enoch Powell (born June 16, 1912, Birmingham, England—died February 8, 1998, London) was a British politician and member of Parliament, noted for his controversial rhetoric concerning Britain’s nonwhite population and for his opposition to the nation’s entry into the European Economic Community.
Apr 24, 2018 · Fifty years ago today, on 20 April 1968, the austere shadow defence secretary Enoch Powell MP made a speech in Birmingham. He told his friend, the editor of his local paper, the Wolverhampton ...
Apr 20, 2018 · Half a century after Enoch Powell delivered the most incendiary political speech in Britain's recent history, his dire vision of race war hasn't come true. But it resonates in British...
Apr 20, 2018 · On 20 April 1968, Enoch Powell delivered one of the most divisive speeches ever made by a British politician. By permitting mass immigration, he said the country was...
Apr 20, 2018 · On April 20, 1968, Enoch Powell, a leading member of the Conservative Party in the British parliament, made a speech that would imprint itself into British memory—and divide the nation with its...
Oct 9, 2014 · Six years after his 'rivers of blood' speech, why did Enoch Powell enter Northern Ireland politics during the Troubles?
Oct 25, 2016 · Enoch Powell's famous Rivers of Blood speech (although he did not say those words) was made at Birmingham's Midland Hotel. It led to reverberations around the country.
Jun 29, 2020 · The 50th anniversary of Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech brought back into public debate one of the most controversial figures in modern British political history.
