I don't think you can be a conservative in the end without being some kind of nationalist. You are always going to have in the back of your mind a conception of the community whose structure you are trying to retain.

Interview with Richard English and Richard Hayton in London (25 June 2008), quoted in Richard English, Richard Hayton and Michael Kenny, 'Englishness and the Union in Contemporary Conservative Thought', Government and Opposition, Vol. 44, No. 4 (October 2009), p. 352