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An unfamiliar witness to British politics would scarcely notice if a current politician pays homage to another by describing him as someone who “understood the importance of national democracy, who understood why you need to live in an independent country and what that meant, as well as being a free marketer and a small-government Conservative.” Yet when Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan made such a statement in an interview back on August 23rd with Reason TV, he touched the third rail of British politics that is Enoch Powell, the late Conservative MP commonly identified for his controversial and polarizing views on immigration, and by extension, race relations and a multicultural...