Butler returned to find himself now a joint PPS with Micky Knatchbull , MP for Ashford in Kent . Butler soon reestablished himself as Hoare 's main adviser and persuaded him to attend the Conservative Conference at Blackpool that October , where Churchill was planning to move a motion critical of the government 's Indian policy . He was given his first ministerial job as Under-Secretary of State for India ( 29 September 1932 ) when Lord Lothian resigned along with the rest of Herbert Samuel 's Official Liberals over the National Government 's abandonment of free trade . At 29 , he was the youngest member of the government
abandonment of free trade
British Empire Economic Conference
Political career of Rab Butler: 1929–1941