Talk:Night of the Long Knives (1962)

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)


 * 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)


 * A note on the motivation should really be inserted into this article. Zangar (talk) 00:19, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
 * How does this compare to Teresa May's 'slightly drastic' cabinet reshuffle? 193.132.104.10 (talk) 17:01, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

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Undiscussed page move
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)