[Mithalwen]

Social justice was also a factor in the "one nation conservatism" proposed by Benjamin Disraeli

And if catholicism makes him conservative de facto, many in the UK would assume that his being an academic and writer would associate him with the left - since the "intelligentsia" and "literati" are often thus aligned but I doubt it was so much the case in Oxford in the first half of the last century. Anyway I don't think I can significantly improve on what I have already said.