Outside the
hall, across the country, are millions
of voters who are pretty sure, in many cases, that a
Conservative government is a bad idea.
He challenged those who don't believe in
government seeking social justice by pointing out that the very building they were in, Hawkstone
Hall, had hosted launches
of Wilberforce's anti-slavery drive, the ragged school movement
of Shaftyesbury (pictured) and that the spire was donated by the family
of Abraham Lincoln who had drawn his inspiration from the
conservative moments that had started there.