Rab Butler: Conservative

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“Conservatives have always been ready to use the power of the State.”

Source: Our Way Ahead (Conservative Political Centre, 1956), p. 10.

“Conservatives were planning before the word entered the vocabulary of political jargon.”

About the Industrial Charter (Conservative Political Centre, 1947), pp. 6-7.

“The term "planning" is a new word for coherent and positive policy. The conception of strong Government policy in economic matters is, I believe, the very centre of the Conservative tradition. We have never been a party of laissez-faire.”

Rab Butler

About the Industrial Charter (Conservative Political Centre, 1947), p. 6.

“Truly Conservative policies [are] freeing markets, freeing the economy, giving the economy buoyancy, moving to liberty and the desirable goal of freeing payments and trade.”

Rab Butler

Speech at the Conservative Party conference of 1954, quoted in Ralph Harris, Politics Without Prejudice. A Political Appreciation of The Rt. Hon. Richard Austen Butler C.H., M.P. (London: Staples Press, 1956), p. 159.