‘Enoch Powell Speaks for Britain’: The Press,the Public and the Speech |
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| Authors: | Dominic Sandbrook |
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| Abstract: | This article explores popular reactions to Enoch Powell's speech in Birmingham on 20 April 1968. It describes the protests by sympathetic workers, such as the Smithfield meat porters, and the responses of the press, both nationally and in the West Midlands. It considers the speech's impact on immigrants themselves and it makes the case that Powell's real significance was as an early champion of a particular kind of anti‐Establishment populism, which has now become a very familiar feature of our political landscape. |
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| Keywords: | immigration populism working class values Conservative |
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