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L OOK at you all! There you are, bright, talented, doubtless in line for a glittering parliamentary career, but not one of you has ever had direct responsibility for caring for someone less fortunate than yourselves!" Here was a statement containing a number of truths.
It was a meeting of first-time parliamentary candidates at the Palace of Westminster, and some of us did indeed go on to have the sort of careers foretold by the then Home Secretary, Willie Whitelaw. The problem, of course, was that he was also largely right in his criticism.See the full content of this document
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Cameron Lacks True Believers
Whitelaw, by contrast, had been commissioned in the Army when barely out of his teens and was thus made responsible for "30 or so working class chaps, many of them much older than me, but who look...
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