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Tory Party conference hears call to rehabilitate Enoch Powell
Enoch Powell during the National EU Referendum Campaign Press conference at the Waldorf Hotel, London, June 1975
REHABILITATE Enoch Powell, a Tory representative demanded today as the Conservative conference got back to basics.
The demand came in a debate about immigration, traditionally a moment for the party to display the worst of its bad sides.
Powell had, the member claimed, been “smeared for a fair and accurate description” of the consequences of migration in his notorious 1968 “rivers of blood” speech, and the party should apologise.
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