We have learnt that one cannot suppress nationalist feeling or force it into a framework against which it revolts. - Douglas Hurd

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We have learnt that one cannot suppress nationalist feeling or force it into a framework against which it revolts.

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About Douglas Hurd

Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, (born 8 March 1930), is a British Conservative politician and diplomat, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1979 and 1995. He left the Commons at the 1997 general election and was elevated to the peerage on 13 June 1997. He retired from the House of Lords on 9 June 2016.

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Alternative Names: Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell
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There is no dread conspiracy against us. There is simply an argument, and no reason why we should be scared or defeatist in that argument. We must continue to fight our corner for British interests. But we can do that without frightening ourselves with ogres.

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