PEERESS’S OPINION
Wilson ‘Just Like Hamlet’ (Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) LONDON. Feb. 20. Watching the Government's planners trying to make up their minds in public was not only demoralising but amounted almost to “indecent exposure,” Lady Asquith, the new Liberal life peeress, said in an address to the Liberal Club.
“If the Liberal Party didn’t exist, the nation would be forced to choose between a Tory Party which always thinks too late and often doesn't think at all, and a Labour Party which thinks but indulges in the dangerous practice of doing all its thinking aloud,” she said. Government decisions should be reached behind closed doors, she said.
At present, over many British aircraft and countless other issues the question was, “To be, or not to be?” “I had never guessed that Mr Harold Wilson was so like Hamlet,” said Lady Asquith.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30682, 23 February 1965, Page 11
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