Beeching cuts and the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Worcester has increased significantly, and double track has now been reinstated on the Golden Valley Line. The Conservatives increased their Commons majority in the general election of 8 October 1959, their first with Harold Macmillan as prime minister, who famously said that most people "had never had it so good". Ernest Marples, previously the Postmaster General, was made Transport Minister two weeks later in a cabinet reshuffle; Marples was described by some as "cocky", "flash", "slick" and as a "construction tycoon", and Macmillan noted that the Northern working-class boy who had won a
Never Close Our Eyes debut album." A negative review came from Katharine St. Asaph of "Pop Dust", who wrote that "The prechorus, in particular, sounds like nobody could decide whether it called for a dubstep breakdown, spot of synth claps or Travie McCoy interjecting with his acoustic guitar." But she realized that "the problem’s not him, it’s the material–which is particularly baffling, considering there are at least five better singles on this thing. One of them is right after this." The song is listed at number ten on "Pop Crush"'s top 10 songs of the year so far. Never Close Our Eyes "Never Close