“Not up to the job.”

—  Clement Attlee

Harold Wilson, Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister (Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, 1986), p. 122.
Explaining to John Parker why he was being sacked from the government in 1946.
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