In one area at least his admirers could claim that Enoch Powell's ideas had been accepted.
Several parliamentary candidates there including the impressive Sandip Verma who is standing in Enoch Powell's former seat.
Bernard Braine backed the Suez operation, opposed sanctions against Rhodesia, and in 1965 supported Enoch Powell for the Conservative Party leadership.
Enoch Powell once said that any politician who complained about the press was like a ship's captain who complained about the sea.
Contrary to Enoch Powell's gloomy crack that all political careers end in failure, Mr Robert's main contention is that Salisbury's was crowned with success.
He went on to chair the Ulster Young Unionist Council in 1985 and 1986, and in 1983 he was appointed agent to the late Enoch Powell.
The Liberals found out just how difficult it was to promote their new leader when the renegade Conservative politician Enoch Powell's outbursts secured more of the media's attention than their new leader, Jeremy Thorpe.
"All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs, " reflected the Conservative politician Enoch Powell.
In the closing days of the 1974 general election campaign, Tory MP Enoch Powell encouraged his supporters to vote Labour and so have a choice to withdraw from the Common Market in a planned referendum.
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In 1974 Clapton's comments to a Birmingham audience that he supported Conservative MP Enoch Powell's views on immigration - loudly criticised in the music press - meant he did not play in the city for a decade, adds Mr Staunton.
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So it was that in 1968 Labour's Michael Foot - who wanted to scrap the Lords altogether - united with the then Tory Enoch Powell - who wanted it to stay just as it was - and led a coalition which defeated change.
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