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'A week is a long time in politics.'

'I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.'

'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery'

'One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.'

'Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.'

Born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
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