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Rab and Butler
This was known as Butskellism, after the almost identical Keynesian policies of Rab Butler on behalf of the Conservatives, and Hugh Gaitskell for Labour.
* Rab Butler ( 1902 – 1982 ), Richard Austen Butler, British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer
* March 8 – Rab Butler, British statesman ( b. 1902 )
Though he voted for the Labour Party in their 1945 landslide victory, because he wanted to punish the Conservative Party for the Munich agreement, after the war he joined the Conservatives and worked for the Conservative Research Department under Rab Butler, where his colleagues included Iain Macleod and Reginald Maudling.
Rab Butler also invited him onto the committee that reviewed party policy for the general election, which he attended until 1955.
At a meeting of the 1922 committee on 22 November, Rab Butler made a speech appealing for party unity in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis.
In this office he insisted that Eden's de facto deputy Rab Butler not be treated as senior to him, and threatened resignation until he was allowed to cut bread and milk subsidies.
The debacle destroyed Prime Minister Eden's political standing and his physical health ; he had to resign, leaving the door to 10 Downing Street open for his deputy Rab Butler or Macmillan.
This surprised some observers who had expected that Rab Butler would be chosen.
* Rab Butler: Lord Privy Seal and Secretary of State for the Home Department
* Rab Butler: Secretary of State for the Home Department
* Rab Butler: Secretary of State for the Home Department
* Rab Butler: Secretary of State for the Home Department
* Rab Butler: Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State
The social and economic policies of the consensus appealed to the paternalism of one nation conservatism because they appeared to provide prosperity and alleviate social problems such as poverty and disease ; this was intellectually developed by the ' new conservatism ' movement, led by Rab Butler.
Rab Butler held the post in 1962 / 63 under Harold Macmillan, but was passed over for the premiership in favour of Alec Douglas-Home.
Whilst studying at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association in Michaelmas 1960, in which term he entertained both the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Home Secretary ( and de facto Deputy Prime Minister, although he did not hold the title until 1962 ) Rab Butler.
Sydney Butler ( daughter of Samuel Courtauld and wife of Rab Butler ) commissioned a glass and steel table and a set of stools for the dining room of her Smith Square house .... Bacon's Queensberry Mews studio was featured in the August 1930 issue of The Studio magazine, in a double page article entitled " The 1930 Look in British Decoration ".
Having lent his support to Rab Butler, and strongly opposed the successful candidacy of the Earl of Home ( later Sir Alec Douglas-Home ), Macleod ( along with Enoch Powell ) refused to serve under the latter as Prime Minister ( though he did return to the shadow cabinet under Home after the 1964 election ).
With his mentor Rab Butler as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Maudling worked to reduce taxes and controls in order to move from post-war austerity to affluence.
The Rab Butler Building
The Rab Butler building was opened in 1991 as the headquarters for the British Household Panel Survey.

Rab and called
Coia took an acting role in an episode of the sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt called ' Holiday ', first shown in 1990, in which the Nesbitt family and their neighbours the Cotters go to Fuengirola.
Tennant also made an early television appearance in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt as a transsexual barmaid called Davina.
A portion of the Kvarner Bay, located between Cres, Krk, Rab and Pag is also called Kvarnerić ( literally " little Kvarner ") or or, and the portion east of Krk and Rab is called Senj Channel.

Rab and him
He died from a heart attack when Rab C. finally stood up to him.
Unfortunately for Jamesie Cotter, he chose to " whap the meat oop " McGurn's daughter Tracey, a fact that very nearly got him eaten himself. In spite of the fact that " no decent human being could hope to strike up a rapport with him " he seems to be quite agreeable towards Rab, entrusting him with his darkest secret: he is a cannibal with false teeth.
Rab is shown to be very fond of his pet and refers to him as a " pit bull canary ".
* Peter The Warlock portrayed by Peter Mullan from ' Life Has Meaning ': a Devil worshipper who, after feeling insulted by Rab, places a hex on him, resulting in a dart embedding itself into Rab's cranium.
* The Dosser portrayed by Russell Hunter from ' Ethics ': A tramp who attempts to kill himself by jumping into the River Clyde within sight of Rab, who rescues him.
The Dosser then blackmails Rab into taking care of him by threatening to commit suicide if he doesn't.
In the end, Rab hires a hitman to get rid of him but attempts to call him off when he discovers that the whole thing is a scam.
* The Hitman portrayed by Freddie Boardley from ' Ethics ': A hitman hired by Rab to do away with the tramp who is conning him.
Appears to have made his career choice by reasons of enjoyment rather than necessity, as when Rab asks him to desist from the murder but keep the money he responds " keep the money, I'll just dae the malky anyway!
" In response Rab hits him over the head with a trashcan cover, and he falls into the river, sinking from sight ; this prompts Rab to say " An ' I always thought shite floated.
* The Heebie Jeebie voiced by the late Russell Hunter from ' Drink ': is a pink elephant that only Rab can see ( Cotter can see it at the end of the episode ) it trys to convince him not to give up drinking.
But the most important work of Amram, which marks him as one of the most prominent of the geonim before Saadia, is his " Prayer-book ," the so-called " Siddur Rab Amram.
" Zetland was also an author: Rab Butler, who served under him in the India Office, records that he asked how he could understand better his chief's thinking about the future of India and received the answer: " Read my books!
Abba Arika (" Rab ") said that God gave Caine a dog, making him an example to murderers.
" He also added " It's an honour to be the one who sets up Rab C's for him.
Douglas-Home ministry saw Rab Butler succeeded him as Foreign Secretary with Henry Brooke replacing Butler as Home Secretary.

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