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Harold Nicolson was an MP from 1935–45 and an exceptionally interesting and revealing commentator on modern British politics. He regarded his political career as a failure, as in some ways it was, but that failure markedly influenced his view of politics, and in particular his attitude to political democracy and its relationship to the ‘educated class’, and especially to Liberalism. Here he had much in common with Keynes; they both had very problematic views of the ‘educated class’ and both struggled with the decline of Asquithian Liberalism—recognizing it as inevitable but to be regretted. Both men eventually gave their political loyalties to Labour, but with little enthusiasm. |
