Enoch Powell

On 5 November the European printed an article by Powell in which he said he did not expect the European Communities Act 1972 to be amended or repealed but added "Still something has happened. Powell had his friend Andrew Alexander talk with Labour Party leader Harold Wilson's press secretary Joe Haines on Powell's timing of his speeches against Heath. Powell later told Paul Foot that the statement was made "out of loyalty to the Government line".

He served as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) (1950–74) Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP (1974–1987) and Minister of Health (1960–63). He returned to the House of Commons in October 1974 as the Ulster Unionist Party MP for the Northern Irish constituency of South Down until he was defeated in the 1987 general election. During the Second World War he served in both staff and intelligence positions reaching the rank of brigadier in his early thirties.