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and to vote ‘no’ in the referendum on Scottish independence, it will have made the whole labour worthwhile. The recent record of other parties in Scotland has not been good; that is never a reason to vote for something worse, and to do so irrevocably; and a party which is often referred to by its members, as the SNP is, as the ‘National Movement’¹² should send a chill down the spine of anyone who remembers what those words have so often meant in Europe.

Endnotes

1. Jenkins, R. Churchill (London 2001), 197–200

2. Mukerjee, M. Churchill’s Secret War (2010), 276

3. Roberts, A. The Holy Fox (1991), 67

4. Griffiths, R. Fellow Travellers of the Right (1980), 223–4

5. Roberts, op. cit., chapter 21, is the best account.

6. Pearce, R. Attlee (1997), 97

7. Butler, R. The Art of the Possible,143, quoted in Sandbrook, D, Never Had It so Good (2005), 85–6

8. Charmley, J. Churchill: the End of Glory. A Political Biography (1993)

9. Ibid., Preface, xvii

10. Evans, R. The Third Reich at War (2008), 645

11. Gray, J. A Point of View: The Trouble with Freedom: BBC News Magazine. (24 Aug 2012).

12. Torrance, D. Salmond: Against the Odds (2011), xi

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