In politics a week is a very long time.
HAROLD WILSONI’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase ‘freedom of the press’ used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
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[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
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