Enoch Powell and the Making of Post-Colonial Britain
Camilla Schofield
Cambridge University Press, 381pp, £65
Enoch Powell remains a disturbing figure even from beyond the grave. In February 1998, shortly after his death, there were public protests at his lying in state in the Chapel of St Faith in Westminster Abbey, a privilege accorded to him as a warden of the adjoining parliamentary church of St Margaret’s and a regular communicant at the abbey. In 2007, Nigel Hastilow, a Conservative candidate for a West Midlands constituency, was forced to resign after declaring in a regional newspaper, “Enoch Powell was right”; in 2011, commenting on the summer riots, the historian David Starkey caused a furore for insisting that Powell had been “absolutely right”.
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