After the Great Train Robbery in August 1963 , Bevins was criticised for laxity in security as the robbery had happened on a mail train . He moved to increase security , but resisted calls to have armed police guarding the trains . That October , Bevins was shocked at the choice of Sir Alec Douglas-Home as the new Prime Minister ( to replace Macmillan ) , as he thought Douglas-Home was part of the upper-class traditional leadership of the Conservatives who would find it difficult to win support from the electorate
Great Train Robbery
Great Train Robbery (1963)
Reginald Bevins