In the closing days of the 1974 general election campaign, Tory MP Enoch Powell encouraged his supporters to vote Labour and so have a choice to withdraw from the Common Market in a planned referendum.

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Bernard Braine backed the Suez operation, opposed sanctions against Rhodesia, and in 1965 supported Enoch Powell for the Conservative Party leadership.

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"All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs, " reflected the Conservative politician Enoch Powell.

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