"He is the liberal conscience of the party."
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Winston Churchill, quoted in Keith Middlemas, 'Introduction', Thomas Jones, Whitehall Diary, Volume I: 1916–1925 (1969), p. xii
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Thomas Jones (civil servant)
Thomas Jones, CH (27 September 1870 – 15 October 1955) was a British civil servant and educationalist, once described as "one of the six most important men in Europe", and also as "the King of Wales" and "keeper of a thousand secrets". Jones served as Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet for nearly twenty years, under four different Prime Ministers.
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