It is not hard to find Conservative MPs, let alone Liberal Democrats, who are more scathing about the City than Labour's shadow chancellor.

很难找到对于金融城比对影子内阁更苛刻的保守党议员，就更不用说自民党了。

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They tend to be more religious and more conservative than Republican primary voters, let alone the general electorate.

他们似乎比共和党初选选民要更加虔诚、更加保守，更不要说普通选民了。

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Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans, who is from Swansea, says it was hard enough growing up in Wales as a Conservative, "let alone being gay".

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Still, in finally reaching the presidency, Lula has defied many forecasts of failure: many pundits argued that a former metalworker, lacking secondary schooling let alone a university degree, was unelectable in a basically conservative country.

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The airing of such views, let alone by senior members of the religious establishment, would once have provoked conservative rage.

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