“Even Dick Turpin had the decency to wear a mask when he robbed people.”

— Ed Miliband

During Miliband's response to the 2015 budget. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/03/budget-2015-full-text-of-ed-miliband-response/
2015

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