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...Their heroes were great parliamentarians such as Palmerston, Gladstone and Churchill. I don’t think most Union hacks dreamed of making policy....
...“He’s fascinated by history,” said Keith Simpson, a Tory MP and historian. “This is all about his legacy. He doesn’t want to be remembered as a transitional chancellor.”...
...In the elegant explanation of the historian Sir Keith Thomas, “uncultivated land meant uncultivated men”....
...Yet artnet’s most recent auction – which included a Keith Haring estimated at $800,000-$1.2m – did not see spectacular results: the Haring and many other lots went unsold....
...All this, of course, alongside a series of masterly biographies of Asquith, Gladstone, Churchill and other statesmen past....
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