Randolph. Churchill has been known as the enfant terrible of British politics ever since he was an enfant. He is not an enfant any longer, and quite a number of influential people think he is just terrible.
His latest misdemeanor has been to publish an account of the struggle for the succession to Harold Macmillan. This appears to have been largely, though not entirely, based on the confidences of Harold Macmillan himself, and these appear to have been lavish indeed. The essence of Randolph’s case was that Macmillan had been determined from the start that Rab Butler should not succeed him. Butler, it was said, lacked the steel that a Prime Minister must have, but it is impossible not to suspect a strong element of personal dislike in Macmillan’s hostility.
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