Benjamin Disraeli — "The right hon. Gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their cl…"
The right hon. Gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal position, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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British Prime Minister who built modern Conservative populism; the only PM of Jewish heritage and a celebrated novelist before politics.
Closely associated with
Lord Salisbury (his Conservative successor as PM).
For an intellectual contrast, see
William Ewart Gladstone, four-time Liberal Prime Minister — the two alternated as PM four times — Gladstone's free-trade moralism and Disraeli's imperialist pragmatism are the founding poles of British party politics.
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Speech in the House of Commons, referring to Sir Robert Peel