“I can remember no case where differences arose between Conservatives, Labour and Liberals along party lines. Certainly not in the War Cabinet. Certainly not in the big things. … When one came to work out solutions they were often socialist ones, because one had to have organisation, and planning, and disregard private interests. But there was no opposition from Conservative Ministers. They accepted the practical solution whatever it was.”

— Clement Attlee

Quoted in Francis Williams, A Prime Minister Remembers (London: Heinemann, 1961), p. 37.
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