Eden resigned and did nothing of note save breed prize Hereford cattle and take exotic holidays for the remaining twenty years of his life

From Small Wars, Faraway Places by Michael Burleigh. Page 302. Burleigh can be brutally accurate. In the fall out from the Sinai affair.

On 22 November Macmillan turned in a bravura performance at the influential Tory 1922 Committee; unable to rise to this occasion, Butler faded from contention. Eden returned to London on 14 December, his deep suntan only accentuating the sick man within. His cabinet colleagues coldly informed him that he had until Easter to improve his health. On 20 December he sank further into ignominy by assuring the House of Commons that ‘there [had been] no plans to attack Egypt’, and that ‘there was no foreknowledge that Israel would attack Egypt’. On 9 January 1957 Eden resigned and did nothing of note save breed prize Hereford cattle and take exotic holidays for the remaining twenty years of his life.