Question: what is wrong with eden in the crown

title: Anthony Eden
text: On his return to the House of Commons ( 17 December ) , he slipped into the Chamber largely unacknowledged by his own party . One Conservative MP rose to wave his Order Paper , only to have to sit down in embarrassment whilst Labour MPs laughed . On 18 December he addressed the 1922 committee ( Conservative backbenchers ) , declaring `` as long as I live , I shall never apologise for what we did '' , but was unable to answer a question about the validity of the Tripartite Declaration of 1950 ( which he had in fact reaffirmed in April 1955 , two days before becoming Prime Minister ) . In his final statement to the House of Commons as Prime Minister ( 20 December 1956 ) he performed well in a difficult debate , but told MPs that `` there was not foreknowledge that Israel would attack Egypt '' . Victor Rothwell writes that the knowledge of his having misled the House of Commons in this way must have hung over him thereafter , as was the concern that the US Administration might demand that Britain pay reparations to Egypt . Papers released in January 1987 showed the entire Cabinet had been informed of the plan on 23 October 1956 .