I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy. (Paul Johnson)

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

Paul Johnson

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