Talk:Night of the Long Knives (1962)

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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 13, 2012.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that fifty years ago today, Harold Macmillan (pictured) dismissed seven members of his Cabinet, an event known as the Night of the Long Knives?

Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on July 13, 2013, July 13, 2014, July 13, 2016, July 13, 2017, July 13, 2018, July 13, 2022, and July 13, 2024.

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Motivation

I’m curious to know some background on this. What was Macmillian’s motivation for firing the ministers? Cherry Cotton (talk) 17:30, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Panic. The Conservatives were floundering in the opinion polls, had had bad results in both the Orpington by-election (losing a safe seat to the Liberals on a huge swing) and the local elections, and Macmillan was trying to get a lot of new faces in (he also sacked eight junior ministers) to revitalise the government. Timrollpickering (talk) 16:37, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A note on the motivation should really be inserted into this article. Zangar (talk) 00:19, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How does this compare to Teresa May's 'slightly drastic' cabinet reshuffle? 193.132.104.10 (talk) 17:01, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Undiscussed page move

@Quellenbrunnen: I appreciate your thinking in moving the page to 1962 British cabinet reshuffle, but the page has been at this title since its creation 18 years ago. You shove open a move discussion here to establish a consensus for such a major change. ——Serial 12:09, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]