h1>Enoch Powell: The Rivers of Blood Speech h2>A Breaking News Story h3>Powell, a Conservative MP, delivered a controversial speech on April 20, 1968, in Birmingham, England.
WEB John Enoch Powell MBE (16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998) was a British politician and statesman. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for 37 years and was a controversial figure in British politics. Powell was born in Birmingham, England, in 1912. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied classics and modern languages. After graduating from Cambridge, Powell worked as a classics teacher and a journalist.
Powell was elected to the House of Commons in 1950 as the Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West. He quickly rose through the ranks of the Conservative Party and was appointed Minister of Housing and Local Government in 1959. In 1960, he was promoted to Minister of Health. Powell was a popular and effective minister, but he was also a controversial figure. He was known for his strong views on immigration, race, and the European Union.
In 1968, Powell delivered a speech in Birmingham in which he warned of the dangers of mass immigration from the Commonwealth. The speech was widely condemned as racist and xenophobic, and it led to Powell's dismissal from the Conservative Party. Powell continued to be a controversial figure in British politics, but he never regained the prominence that he had enjoyed in the 1950s and 1960s. He died in London in 1998.
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