Little local difficulties
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little local difficulties were words which Harold Macmillan used to underplay the resignation of his Treasury team: the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Peter Thorneycroft, and his two junior ministers, Nigel Birch and Enoch Powell, over government spending. Macmillan uttered these words in a calm way as he left for a Commonwealth tour, managing to conceal his anxiety.