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Harold Macmillan, whose Cabinet reshuffle, precipitated by a leak to the press, became known as the "Night of the Long Knives" British prime minister Harold Macmillan carried out a major cabinet reshuffle of his premiership on 13 July 1962. Macmillan dismissed seven members of his Cabinet, a third of the total.
In the 1962 cabinet reshuffle known as the "Night of the Long Knives", Macmillan sacked eight Ministers, including Selwyn Lloyd. The Cabinet changes were widely seen as a sign of panic, and the young Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe said of Macmillan's dismissals, "greater love hath no man than this, than to lay down his friends for his life".
In a radical reshuffle dubbed "The Night of the Long Knives", Macmillan sacked a third of his Cabinet and instituted many other changes. Harold Macmillan: Prime Minister; Rab Butler: Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State; The Viscount Dilhorne: Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
This mass removal of ministers, referred to as ‘the night of the long knives', smacked of desperation and caused many people to question Macmillan's political judgment. [ 2 ] Leicester North East by-election, 1962 [ 3 ]
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, CH, PC (9 April 1903 – 29 March 1984) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General from 1961 to 1962 and — following the "Night of the Long Knives" — as Home Secretary from 1962 to 1964.
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When Harold Macmillan became Prime Minister in January 1957, he was made Secretary of State for Scotland with a seat in the cabinet. He continued in this post until July 1962, when he was a victim of the "Night of the Long Knives", when one-third of the Cabinet lost their ministries.
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