After his unexpected victory Heath appointed a cabinet which featured many of Cub's old friends. Apart from the Prime Minister himself, Iain Macleod (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and Robert Carr (Employment) represented the original “One Nation”; Reginald Maudling at the Home Office had been an early recruit to the group. Margaret Thatcher, the former Colchester Young Conservative, was made Secretary of State for Education, and Cub's onetime PPS, Keith Joseph, went to Health and Social Security. Cub's old boss at the CRO Sir Alec Douglas-Home was the obvious candidate for the Foreign Office. As soon as the ministerial line-up was complete Cub sent his best wishes to Heath, Thatcher and Carr; clearly in a good letter-writing mood, he also dispatched congratulations to Butler on the first election of his son Adam, and even consoled Enoch Powell on the “rotten time” he had gone through in recent months. There was genuine sympathy in the latter message; Powell's friendship had once been important to him, and he regretted that poor judgement had deprived the nation of his talents. Ominously Powell replied that “I fear I may yet have to make further calls on your friendship and charity as the stock of torpedoes is not exhausted”.