“If the British public falls for this, I think it would be stark, staring bonkers.”

—  Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

"Tories to fight like fury, Party chairman says", The Times, 13 October 1964 (p. 12)
At a press conference on 12 October 1964 during the general election campaign, referring to the policies of the Labour Party.

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