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If it is the case that one Department of this Government deliberately organised a leak to frustrate a Minister in the same Government, that is not only dirty tricks but a habit that is inimical to the practice of good government in this country.

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Speech on the Westland affair (15 January 1986).

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The Scots are a more moral people [than the English].

The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.

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