Foreign News: Butler in the Kitchen

(3 of 3)

Unfair as much of it was. Gaitskell's attack hit home. Butler's face flushed, and one or two of his back-bench supporters deserted him and voted with the Laborites when the division came. In the end, the Tories had the votes, and Butler's budget would be accepted; yet his remedies were not only unpopular, they were also, to many minds, inadequate.

At week's end the highly respected 17-nation Organization for European Economic Cooperation roundly criticized Butler's policies as "basically incorrect." For Rab Butler, who once looked like a Prime Minister in the making, an austere winter lay ahead.