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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.
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. [2] [3] [4] In British media and political discourse, such scandals have sometimes been referred to as political sleaze since the 1990s. [4]
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.
15 May – Tottenham Hotspur become the first British football team to win a European trophy when a 5–1 win over Atlético Madrid in Rotterdam gives them the European Cup Winners' Cup. 25 May – Manchester United F.C. beat Leicester City 3–1 in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium with two goals from David Herd and another from Denis Law .
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 ...
Selwyn Lloyd also returned to the government after a one-year absence, as Leader of the House of Commons. Douglas-Home's government was defeated in the October 1964 general election. He remained party leader until July 1965. The 1957–1964 Conservative government saw several emerging figures who would later attain high office.
An Act to alter the composition of the Trustees of the British Museum, to provide for the separation from the British Museum of the British Museum (Natural History), to make new provision with respect to the regulation of the two Museums and their collections in place of that made by the British Museum Act 1753 [r] and enactments amending or ...
According to George L. Bernstein, many British people felt that Powell "was the first British politician who was actually listening to them". [ 135 ] After The Sunday Times branded his speeches "racialist", Powell sued it for libel , but withdrew when he was required to provide the letters he had quoted from because he had promised anonymity ...