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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.
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Enoch Powell (1912-1998) was a British politician most famous for his 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech warning about the dangers of mass immigration into the UK. Enoch Powell was both a controversial and popular figure with strong opinions on many contemporary political issues.
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 ...
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Jan 13, 2023 · Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century. When the SS Empire Windrush docked in Britain in 1948, it ushered in a new era of immigration. Two decades later, Enoch Powell delivered his Rivers of Blood speech warning of the threat that immigrants posed.
Apr 20, 2018 · Enoch Powell, who represented Wolverhampton in Parliament, feared a race war coming because of mass immigration. On April 20, 1968, he took the stage at a Conservative Party event at the...
