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Article: Sir Alec bumbles in last months of power
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 2, 1996
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As Sir Alec Douglas-Home's government clung to office through
the first nine months of 1964, it showed it had lost its touch as
much by its handling of trivial as of grave matters.
Sir Alec, who had renounced his title as the 14th Earl of Home
to become Prime Minister, had an idea for dealing with the problem
of mods and rockers: to treat them like poachers.
On 29 May, the Cabinet home affairs committee considered whether
the Government could toughen the law "to deal with the possibility
of further outbreaks of teenage hooliganism at seaside resorts
during the summer". On his copy of the minutes Sir Alec scrawled:
"Perhaps the Home Secretary knows that under Scottish law the car
in which a ...