Enoch Powell was undoubtedly an interesting man with many admirable qualities, especially in his early academic and military life.

The idea that his failure to attain the position of PM was the start of British decline is though risible. More like a bullet dodged. Even the Telegraph accused him of playing into the hands of the National Front and being a racist.

His attitude can though be heard today in the echo chambers of the right. If he was still with us he would no doubt be regularly to be seen on GBNews and being touted as the next leader of Reform and the man to “save” our country.

Other opinions exist:-

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"I hope those who shouted 'Fascist' and 'Nazi' are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism." [Enoch Powell]

I gave him due credit for that. He also stood up and argued against MPs who regarded Africans as sub human. As I said he was an interesting and highly intellectual man.

All that was praiseworthy. No hint of racism or fascism in his early life. It was only when her flipped and allowed political ambition to dominate his reasoning that he harnessed himself to the cause of stopping immigration into the UK, becoming populist and appealing to the likes of the National Front.

Which was a pity as far from making his political career, it finished it. He was no fool. He would have realised that the path we were on was inevitable and no number of emotional speeches was going to change that. Rather than fight against the inevitable it would have been much more productive to try to shape it and manage it, but he chose not to.

And why do you expect it's there?

I expect that it is, in the files supporting the application. Not though available to us, or the Mail, who wouldn’t be interested anyway.

Those in authority are always subject to criticism. It’s more reasonable though when all the facts are known and they have had an opportunity to explain. Basing opinions solely on a report in a rag like the Mail does not meet that criteria.