All my life, I thought I was a Conservative. Now I know that I have never been one. The scales have dropped from my eyes. - Keith Joseph

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All my life, I thought I was a Conservative. Now I know that I have never been one. The scales have dropped from my eyes.

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About Keith Joseph

Sir Keith Sinjohn Joseph, Baron Joseph, Bt, CH, PC (17 January 1918 – 10 December 1994), known as Sir Keith Joseph, 2nd Baronet, for most of his political life, was a British politician, intellectual and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as a minister under four prime ministers: Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher. He was a key influence in the creation of what came to be known as "Thatcherism". He was the first to introduce the concept of the social market economy into Britain, an economic and social system inspired by Christian democracy.

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