"There is the break-up gang, the "Break Up Britain" gang, of the "Scot-Nats." and the "Welsh-Nats.", apparently wishing to strip the assets of the United Kingdom as if it were a kind of shell company and deprive us all of our nation, which is Britain, and perhaps to go back to the days of Flodden or Owen Glendower. There is class divided notoriously against class... There is union against management and there is even union against union: interest against interest—town against country; and even individual against individual. Until we can recapture the spirit of service, perhaps the spirit of sacrifice, certainly the spirit of patriotism, this is to my mind the longer-term and perhaps the more dangerous crisis of the two."
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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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Speech in the House of Lords (30 October 1974)
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Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
1950 – 1963
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