Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton

Politics & Policy

Low-impact change.

Impact 25.3 · Hidden · Confidence 75

• Two substantive factual movements are shown: (1) a specific branch of service (Royal Naval) added to WWII duties, (2) new documentary evidence about Kenya changes prior narrative.

Replace “supported the Baring Erskine regime and the attitudes that went with it The hermetic seal on the flow of information about Kenya was blown by Barbara Castle who made her own visit to Kenya for the Daily Mail and subsequently reported to the House on the government's failure to recognise that the Africans are human beings with fundamental human rights as people There seems to be no evidence that Lennox Boyd then or later supported any movement towards the independence of Kenya From his earliest years in politics he had openly admired the fascist dictators reluctantly accepted democracy in Britain supported the British Empire as a natural expression of racial superiority in an unequal world His later joining the Monday Club was of a piece with rejecting Macmillan's adjustment of Conservatism” with “supported the Baring Erskine regime and the attitudes that went with it In April 2011 a Guardian report described a cache of government documents”.

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