Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... [The EEC] is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.
Interview by Brian Walden (29 January 1978), from "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, Phoenix, (p. 800), 1999.
