He championed a Keynesian strategy of deficit spending to maintain demand and pursuit of corporatist policies to develop the domestic market as the engine of growth.
He supported the welfare state and the necessity of a mixed economy with some nationalised industries and strong trade unions. He was a One Nation Tory of the Disraelian tradition and supported the post-war consensus. When Eden resigned in 1957 following the Suez Crisis, Macmillan succeeded him as prime minister and Leader of the Conservative Party. In the 1950s Macmillan served as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Anthony Eden. He rose to high office during the Second World War as a protégé of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He opposed the appeasement of Germany practised by the Conservative government. Losing his seat in 1929, he regained it in 1931, soon after which he spoke out against the high rate of unemployment in Stockton-on-Tees. After the war he joined his family book-publishing business, then entered Parliament at the 1924 general election.
He suffered pain and partial immobility for the rest of his life. Macmillan was badly injured as an infantry officer during the First World War. Caricatured as " Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability. Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
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