“What was the use of talking about freedom if they had millions of people tethered to slums?”

— David Lloyd George

Speech to the Oxford University Liberal Club at the Oxford Union (15 June 1926), quoted in The Times (16 June 1926), p. 18
Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons

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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1863–1945

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