“If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the front bench of the Labour Party you can talk to me about Profumo.”

— Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, "Smear" (Fourth Estate, 1991) p. 48
Reply to heckler's cry of "Profumo!" at a public meeting on 13 October 1964. Hogg probably had in mind the Labour Party leader Harold Wilson specifically.

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