Speak for England, Arthur!

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Retort when Arthur Greenwood stood during a House of Commons debate on 2 September 1939, and announced that he was speaking for Labour, as Labour Party leader Clement Attlee was absent at the time. The implication was that Greenwood should speak for England, as Chamberlain was failing to do so.

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