"My friends, I must tell you that a socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. Although it is put forward in the main by people who have the best intentions in the world, and who are guided, as they believe, purely by concern for the welfare of the people, there can be no doubt that socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state. No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance."

Winston Churchill, BBC radio broadcast, 4 June 1945. The first party political election broadcast of the 1945 general election campaign. The election was held on 5 July 1945; the result was declared on 26 July.