After nearly three decades of similar disagreement, Wales was, in effect, given permission to choose a capital by the Minister for Welsh Affairs Sir David Maxwell Fyfe in 1951.

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David Maxwell, the base commander, told reporters Friday morning.

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Mr Macmanus, a former ministerial adviser, traces the Conservatives' changing attitudes from the anti-gay crusading of 1950s home secretary David Maxwell Fyfe to an era when a Conservative prime minister can support gay marriage at his party conference and win a round of applause.

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