‘Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.’ —Benjamin Disraeli

In his final campaign in 1951, the Labour Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, concluded his speech to the Labour conference by quoting from the poet William Blake’s Jerusalem:

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