There’s a particular dread one feels whenever a Conservative MP voices an opinion about history. It’s usually some slightly sweeping statement that was once widely believed but now only raises a groan and the dreaded words ‘hi, historian here’ – and truly there is no phrase more feared in the English language, aside from, perhaps, ‘replacement bus servi…
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