“If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.”

—  John Major

Attributed to Major by Vernon Bogdanor, " Why the Lords doesn't need more politicians http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/02/11/do1104.xml", Sunday Telegraph, 11 February 2007
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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1943

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