We must understand that no party in the country can with success base itself on or identify itself with one social element or class. To be successful… - Rab Butler

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We must understand that no party in the country can with success base itself on or identify itself with one social element or class. To be successful we have still to reorganize from top to bottom the social structure on which our party rests. We agree that in the modern world great extremes of poverty and wealth shall be replaced by an infinite variety of plenty.

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About Rab Butler

Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, DL, PC (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), also known as R. A. Butler, was a British Conservative politician. Butler was passed over twice as a potential Prime Minister, but did serve in the other three Great Offices of State (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary).

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Alternative Names: Richard Austen Butler R. A. Butler
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The Government will have to give consideration to the question of how much this inflow can be assimilated into our society at the present time. If you give the Government a little longer, we shall try to find a solution as friendly to these people as we can and not based on colour prejudice alone.

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Tories and others set about the task of dealing with the social consequences of the Industrial Revolution by calling upon the power of Government to redress injustice...[The State] assumed the functions of protecting the common interest and safeguarding the interests of the weaker members of society.

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