“They are going up and down the country, stirring up apathy.”

—  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

On Labour's 1970 election campaign, quoted in his obituaries in the Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jul/02/guardianobituaries.obituaries, and Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-viscount-whitelaw-1103681.html
Chief Opposition Whip 1964-70

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