SIR Anthony Eden, who had made his name as a Foreign Secretary, finally reached the top of the greasy pole in April 1955, when he replaced Churchill as Prime Minister. Having called a general election, he went campaigning, and visited Scotland the following month. He and his wife, Lady Eden, were driven in an open-topped sports car to four constituencies - Provan, Rutherglen, Lanark and Craigton. (The photograph was taken in Dennistoun).
As he boarded a B.E.A. Viscount at Renfrew Airport to return to London, Eden asked reporters to convey a message to the Scottish people. He said: “You have been singing ‘Will ye ‘no come back again’ Let me tell you now, we will be back - back at Westminster and back here in Scotland soon. Today and yesterday I have spoken to many thousands of the people of Scotland. My wife and I have been deeply moved by the warmth of your Scottish welcome and the encouragement you have given to the Unionist cause, which I believe to be the cause of our great country.”
The Glasgow Herald said women greatly outnumbered men at Eden’s stops, seemingly the result of the government having fulfilled its pledge of full employment.
Eden won the election but his handling of the following year’s Suez Crisis would prove to be his downfall. Beset in addition with health problems, he resigned in January 1957, to be replaced by Harold Macmillan.
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