“Future nationalisations will be more concerned with equality than with planning, and this means that we can leave the monolithic public corporation behind us and look for more intimate forms of ownership and control.”

— Roy Jenkins

Fair Shares for the Rich (Tribune, 1951), p. 16
1950s

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British politician, historian and writer 1920–2003

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