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In the spring, Powell attended a subcommittee on immigration control as a housing minister and advocated immigration controls.

In August, he gave a speech at a meeting of the Institute of Personnel Management and was asked a question about immigration.

He answered that limiting immigration would require a change in the law: " There might be circumstances in which such a change of the law might be the lesser of two evils ".

But he added, " There would be very few people who would say the time had yet come when it was essential that so great a change should be made ".

Powell later told Paul Foot that the statement was made " out of loyalty to the Government line ".

Powell also spoke for the Rent Bill, which ended wartime rent controls when existing tenants moved out, thereby phasing out regulation.