"Peter Shore to dinner... I found him very anti-Benn, whom he thinks rather mad, skirting round the mountain of Healey, very pro-Foot. His views on world politics is that of an old-fashioned Atlanticist of the 1950s, very pro the Americans, on nearly all their attitudes, wise and unwise, which they have taken up over both Iran and Afghanistan. He is bitterly anti-Europe, particularly the French, where one has a bit of sympathy with him, but he goes much too far and regards them as not so much a nation as a conspiracy against the public weal. But the whole impression was one of somebody who is agreeable, intelligent, but miles off being a great man, and not very inspiriting either."
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Roy Jenkins, diary entry (12 February 1980), quoted in Roy Jenkins, European Diary, 1977–1981 (1989), p. 569
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Peter Shore
Peter David Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney, PC (20 May 1924 – 24 September 2001) was a British Labour politician and former Cabinet Minister who was opposed to the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community (EEC). His idiosyncratic left-wing nationalism led to comparison with the French politician Jean-Pierre Chevènement.
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