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The Profumo affair was a major scandal in British politics during the early 1960s. John Profumo, the 46-year-old Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, had an extramarital affair with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler beginning in 1961.
The Vassall Tribunal was a public inquiry undertaken in 1963 by the British government in the wake of the John Vassall affair. Vassall, a civil servant working in the Admiralty, had been revealed the previous year to be a Soviet spy, and considerable criticism had been levelled at the security arrangements that were in place. The tribunal was ...
Scandals implicating political figures or governments of the UK, often reported in the mass media, have long had repercussions for their popularity. Issues in political scandals have included alleged or proven financial and sexual matters, [1] or various other allegations or actions taken by politicians that led to controversy.
Stephen Thomas Ward (19 October 1912 – 3 August 1963) was an English osteopath and artist who was one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, a British political scandal which brought about the resignation of John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, and contributed to the defeat of the Conservative government a year later.
James May, English motoring journalist and television presenter [42] 18 January – Ian Crook, English footballer; 19 January Martin Bashir, British television journalist; John Bercow, English Conservative politician, MP for Buckingham and Speaker of the House of Commons [43] Caron Wheeler, British singer-songwriter (Soul II Soul)
A child sexual abuse scandal that revealed how gangs of mostly Pakistani men had groomed, trafficked and raped young white girls more than a decade ago, has returned to the political agenda in ...
Politics portal; United Kingdom portal; A British political scandal commonly refers to some action by a politician deemed unacceptable in law or by custom, or which is held to be morally unacceptable to the politician's peers or the electorate. However it may also refer to unacceptable actions by anyone (for example a civil servant, someone in ...
Andrew Michael Sullivan (born 10 August 1963) is a British-American political commentator. Sullivan is a former editor of The New Republic , and the author or editor of six books. He started a political blog, The Daily Dish , in 2000, and eventually moved his blog to platforms, including Time , The Atlantic , The Daily Beast , and finally an ...