{"id":98369,"date":"2025-10-09T04:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=98369"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:32:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:32:31","slug":"enoch-powell-the-father-of-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/10\/09\/enoch-powell-the-father-of-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"Enoch Powell: The Father of Brexit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OstDReKXRfk?si=GUe6OVcBN6_R5H9z\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Rest Is History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 6 Oct 2025<\/p>\n<p>Who was Enoch Powell, the deeply controversial British conservative politician? Why is he the father of Brexit, and possibly even Reform? And, how did he come to make his inflammatory &#8220;Rivers of Blood speech&#8221;, in 1968?  <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n00:23 Hive<br \/>\n01:46 Introducing Enoch Powell<br \/>\n07:41 A very peculiar childhood<br \/>\n09:19 The least clubbable man in Cambridge<br \/>\n13:30 War years<br \/>\n14:48 An imperial dream thwarted<br \/>\n17:02 An eccentric MP<br \/>\n23:26 The anti-American<br \/>\n24:53 Immigration in post-war Britain<br \/>\n31:09 Smethwick 1964: campaign, slogan, shock result<br \/>\n33:34 Uber<br \/>\n34:14 Mid-60s Britain<br \/>\n35:59 Powell pivots to immigration<br \/>\n41:44 English identity in Powell&#8217;s mind (&#8220;united people in an island home&#8221;)<br \/>\n44:12 Politics &#038; ambition: differentiating from Heath<br \/>\n45:03 The role of US race riots in Powell&#8217;s evolving opinions<br \/>\n46:24 Kenyan Asians crisis; Labour&#8217;s response<br \/>\n49:47 Race Relations Bill setup: Powell prepares the speech<br \/>\n50:59 The &#8220;Rivers of Blood&#8221; speech<br \/>\n56:07 Immediate fallout: sacking, friends&#8217; reactions<br \/>\n57:42 Public opinion divides<br \/>\n1:00:04 His legacy<br \/>\n1:04:02 Was Powell racist?<br \/>\n1:08:12 Long-term legacy: why politicians avoided the topic <\/p>\n<p>Join Dominic and Tom as they discuss Enoch Powell &mdash; one of the most incendiary and contentious figures in all of British political history &mdash; and his enduring shadow today.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Twitter:<br \/>\n@TheRestHistory<br \/>\n@holland_tom<br \/>\n@dcsandbrook<\/p>\n<p>Senior Producer: Theo Young-Smith<br \/>\nProducer: Tabby Syrett<br \/>\nAssistant Producer: Aaliyah Akude<br \/>\nSocial Producer: Harry Balden<br \/>\nVideo Producer: Jack Meek<br \/>\nPost Production Manager: Harry Swan<br \/>\nHead of History: Dom Johnson<br \/>\nHead of Video &#038; Social: Sam Oakley<br \/>\nExecutive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rest Is History Published 6 Oct 2025 Who was Enoch Powell, the deeply controversial British conservative politician? Why is he the father of Brexit, and possibly even Reform? And, how did he come to make his inflammatory &#8220;Rivers of Blood speech&#8221;, in 1968? 00:00 Intro 00:23 Hive 01:46 Introducing Enoch Powell 07:41 A very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,53],"tags":[311,1391,431,570,554,99,1604],"class_list":["post-98369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-politics","tag-1960s","tag-biography","tag-conservatism","tag-england","tag-immigration","tag-racism","tag-therestishistory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pAB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98370,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98369\/revisions\/98370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}