“People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.”

—  Margaret Thatcher

Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (14 October 1977) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103443
Leader of the Opposition

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