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On the morrow of defeat when, like all good wives, Mrs Churchill tried to cheer up her downcast husband, she remarked that ‘Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise’, to which she received the reply: ‘At the moment it seems quite effectively disguised.’ But there was something in her comment, all the same.
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See John Ramsden, ‘“A Party for Owners or a Party for Earners?” How far did the British Conservative Party really change after 1945?’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1987, pp. 49–63.
R. Cockett (ed.), Dear Max (1990), p. 58.
J. Hoffman, The Conservatives in Opposition (1963), pp. 39–40.
Lord Woolton, Memoirs, (1957), pp. 331–6.
Ramsden, TRHS, 1987, p. 58.
Paul Addison, ‘The Road from 1945’, in P. Hennessy and A. Seldon (eds), Ruling Performance (1989), p. 7.
C. Barnett, Audit of War (1988) for this, but Maurice Cowling would seem to share this view.
Sir Ian Gilmour, Inside Right: A Study in Conservatism (1977).
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Charmley, J. (1998). The New Model Tory Party?. In: A History of Conservative Politics, 1900–1996. British Studies Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14691-8_7
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