“The British Labour Party has always been nationalist, if not insular, and…not just democratic but parliamentarian. But it is confrontation with the EEC that has presented the Labour Party with an uninhibited appeal to patriotism. Internationalist it may be in phrases; when it comes to policy, it is nationalist.”

—  Enoch Powell

'In judgment on political casebooks', The Saturday Times (9 April 1983), p. 5
1980s

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