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Harold Wilson

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The school I went to in the north was a school where more than half the children in my class never had any boots or shoes to their feet. They wore clogs, because they lasted longer than shoes of comparable price.
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Speech in Birmingham, July 1948. The second sentence was largely forgotten.

 
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