"Conservatism derives its inspiration and seeks to base its policy on what Conservatives believe to be the underlying unity of all classes of Englishmen, their ultimate identity of interest, their profound similarity of outlook, the common dangers and difficulties they have shared in the past, and with which they are still faced, and the necessity for unity as the true means of meeting them together."
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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomLord Chancellors (United Kingdom)British peersGovernment ministersEducation ministers of the United Kingdom
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Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
1950 – 1963
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