“Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.”

— Winston S. Churchill

Remark in 1923 after rejoining the Conservatives, having left them earlier to join the Liberals; reported in Kay Halle, Irrepressible Churchill (1966), p. 52–53. Other sources say this remark was made in 1924.
Early career years (1898–1929)

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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