In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

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Article for The Sunday Telegraph, citing the swing to the Conservatives in his constituency and others with large working-class electorates (18 October 1964), quoted in Simon Heffer, Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell (1998), p. 364

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