“Mr Chamberlain views everything through the wrong end of a municipal drain-pipe.”

David Lloyd George, as quoted in Rats! (1941) by "The Pied Piper", p. 108; similar remarks have also been attributed to Winston Churchill in later works, including Neville Chamberlain : A Biography (2006) by Robert C. Self, p. 12
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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1869–1940

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