If his dark interior moods were at odds with his self-assured exterior, so did his Liberal politics jar with his Conservative family background and his upper-class, Eton-and-Christ-Church education.

• 如果他抑郁的内心世界与自信的外在表现形成对比的话，那他的自由派政治观念与其保守派家庭环境以及接受的上层伊顿及基督教教育之间的碰撞也是如此。