“It must be the duty of the next Labour Government in power to make an immediate challenge to the capitalist system and take the banks and the land into the custody of the people. The time had come to drop all hesitancy and to be bold. If they returned a Socialist Government next time, it was going to "do things," whatever it cost.”

— Stafford Cripps

Speech in Canning Town (26 June 1935), quoted in The Times (28 June 1935), p. 13.

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