Editing The Spectator (section)

==="The Tory Leadership" article===
Two months into his post, in January 1964, Macleod intensified the shock by revealing the behind-the-scenes machinations of the Conservative party. In a long article entitled "The Tory Leadership", ostensibly a review of a new book (''The Fight for the Tory Leadership'') by [[Randolph Churchill]], Macleod laid out his version of events in great detail. In disclosing, from the horse's mouth, the mysterious circumstances of Douglas-Home's appointment, the article caused an immediate sensation. Churchill's book was all but obliterated by the review, which said that "four fifths" of it "could have been compiled by anyone with a pair of scissors, a pot of paste and a built-in prejudice against Mr [[Rab Butler|Butler]] and Sir [[William Haley]]".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Macleod |first=Iain |date=17 January 1964 |title=The Tory Leadership |url=https://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/17th-january-1964/5/the-tory-leadership |access-date=16 March 2024 |magazine=The Spectator |page=5}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Wheatcroft |first=Geoffrey |date=17 January 2004 |title=The end of the Etonians |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-end-of-the-etonians/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240616160713/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-end-of-the-etonians/ |archive-date=2024-06-16 |access-date=16 March 2024 |website=The Spectator}}</ref> That week's edition, bearing the headline "Iain Macleod, What Happened", sold a record number of copies.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}