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Bird plunges into a depression, questions his own existence, and finds an unlikely way out when he stumbles into a street war between competing ice-cream barons.
But for all his passionate logic Mr Powell was unable in the 1960s to persuade the barons of the Conservative Party to abandon the Keynesian policies of the post-war years.