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My grandparents, Enoch Powell and the day they fell out over his 'rivers of blood' speech by Rupert Jones

Rupert Jones' grandparents were babysitting Enoch Powell's children on the day of his infamous speech. The doorstep showdown as he arrived to collect them ended 20 years of friendship between the two familiesLate in the afternoon of 20 April 1968, Enoch Powell called at my grandparents' house in Westland Avenue, Wolverhampton.A couple of hours earlier, at a hotel in Birmingham, he had delivered one of the most contro…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08AM on October 22, 2016

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