Suez
Prior-Palmer supported abolition of capital punishment in an unwhipped House of Commons vote in February 1956, one of only 48 Conservative MPs to do so. He backed the Eden government on Suez, arguing that it took British and French intervention to get a United Nations force to come in. Having served as Chair of the Conservative Backbenchers' Army sub-committee for most of the 1950s, he was made Vice-Chairman of the Defence Committee from 1958.
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