Pressure On The Churchill Government
Lindsay was not offered any government posts when Churchill returned to office in 1951. He pressed the new government to set up an all-party conference on House of Lords reform, and to abolish identity cards as soon as possible. Lindsay also supported a committee such as that run by Eric Campbell Geddes in 1920 to cut public expenditure, criticising "the Government's hitherto total failure to fulfil their election promises" to make a substantial economy. He received the CBE in 1952.
At the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Lindsay served as a Gold Staff Officer. He was a member of the Royal Company of Archers, the Queen's Body Guard for Scotland. Writing in his constituency association's magazine in June 1954, he stated that Winston Churchill would retire before that autumn to make way for Anthony Eden and predicted that Harold Macmillan would be promoted to be the new Foreign Secretary. In the autumn he became interested in the problems of road congestion and tabled a motion urging a much increased road programme to solve it.
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