“Of all the colleagues I have lost, he is the one I am least sorry to see the last of. I hope that Lewisham will throw the intruder out. He only came here because he ran away from a communist.”

—  Herbert Morrison

Daily Express, 5 July 1945.
Winston Churchill supporting Morrison's opponent in the 1945 general election.
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