“Your arguments are overwhelming. You’re obviously right — and the answer is No.”

—  Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett

To education secretary Reg Prentice
Daily Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11205400/Lord-Barnett-obituary.html obituary, 3 Nov 2014

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