The guests included David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Austen Chamberlain (a former Chancellor of the Exchequer), and Lord Birkenhead, until recently Lord Chancellor.

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Liberal Democrat peer Lord Thomas of Gresford, president of the Lloyd George Society, read extracts from Lloyd George's speeches and from Winston Churchill's tribute delivered to the House of Commons on Lloyd George's death in 1945.

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There is a quotation variously attributed to Winston Churchill or George Orwell.

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Thus he would arrive on his motorcycle at the grandest houses in the uniform of an RAF rank-and-filer and nurture his friendships with the powerful and famous, including Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw.

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The party I grew up in was the party of George Aiken, Ernest Gibson, Ralph Flanders, Winston Prouty, and Bob Stafford.

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