More than thirty years later a member of the group issued a public apology to Carr, and sent him a Christmas card. In 1972 he served a brief period as Lord President of the Council and was then appointed Home Secretary after the resignation of Reginald Maudling. After his defeat in the first ballot of the 1975 Conservative leadership contest, Edward Heath asked Carr to 'take over the functions of leader' until a new leader was elected. He was created a Life peer as Baron Carr of Hadley, of Monken Hadley, North London, in 1976.
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