Keith Joseph, interview with Anthony Seldon, quoted in Anthony Seldon, 'Escaping the chrysalis of statism', Contemporary Record, 1:1 (Spring 1987), p. 27
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It's easy with hindsight to see all those years before and after the war as wasted. I'm a Correlli Barnett supporter. I believe that managements, helped by trade unions and helped by governments, were not nearly effective enough.

— Keith Joseph

What It Means

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About Correlli Barnett

Correlli Douglas Barnett (28 June 1927 – 10 July 2022) was an English military historian, who also wrote works of economic history, particularly on the United Kingdom's post-war "industrial decline".