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Dismissal

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1940–1983Date range
3Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1940

Hore-Belisha1940

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Dismissed by Chamberlain

1968

Edward Richard George Heath1968

Government / Conservative Party Government

Dismisses Enoch Powell from the shadow cabinet after his "rivers of blood" speech

1983

Francis Pym10 June 1983

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Refuses to be appointed Speaker & accepts a place on the back benches

Names involved

Edward Richard George HeathFrancis PymHore-Belisha

Provenance

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