1958 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1958 in the United Kingdom. == Incumbents == Monarch – Elizabeth II Prime Minister – Harold Macmillan (Conservative) == Events == 6 January – Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft together with junior Treasury Ministers Enoch Powell and Nigel Birch resign over Cabinet opposition to spending cuts, an event dismissed to the Press the following day by the Prime Minister as "little local difficulties".

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