"Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government."
"My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me."
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Source: 1924 Of Queen Victoria. Diary entry, 22 Jan, on having invited Ramsay Macdonald to form the first Labour administration.
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