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Do you remember ITMA? ... It's being so cheerful as keeps him going.
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Responding to a gloomy speech about the economy from Francis Pym delivered on February 1, 1982. Ingham referred to the character 'Mona Lott' from the radio comedy ITMA.

 

Bernard Ingham

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