Background
Intellectually and physically impressive, with dark bushy eyebrows. He gave his valedictory speech on 20 October 1972 wearing a waistcoat in the Munro tartan with gold buttons. The Evening Post reported, ‘His audience on both sides of the House hung on to every word and gesture as if they had paid top West End prices for the privilege’. Munro spoke without evident rancour over his failure to achieve a seat at the cabinet table, saying only, ‘I think it is inevitable and proper under our constitution that the Prime Minister should select his colleagues because he has to get on with them; it is a situation I accept’.