ENGLAND. June 19.--Conservative Enoch Powell. who injected the race issue into British politics. doubled his previous majority in Britains national elections yesterday despite denunciations from opponents and repudiations from his own party leadership. The outspoken Tory campaigned for curbs on nonwhite immigration into Britain and was elected for the seventh time to represent Southwest Wolverhampton in the House of Commons. Powell. 58. polled 26.220 votes to 11.763 for his labor opponent. Powell was asked if he was responsible for the surprise Conservative victory nationwide. I "I would like to see my result in the context of the results throughout the country before I attempt to draw any conclusions about it." Even before the voting began. he complained bitterly that Edward Heaths Tory leadership had turned its back on him. Heath had expelled him from the Conservative high command in 1967 and condemned his assertions that unchecked nonwhite immigration would produce violence in Britain. A classical scholar and army general as well as a politician. Powell aroused passions wherever he spoke during the campaign.
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