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Skinner: "OK, half the Tories opposite are not crooks."

— Dennis Skinner Misattributed

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Source and credibility

Dennis Skinner very probably did not say this. Wikiquote lists it as misattributed.

Source: There is no evidence that Skinner said this. But see quotation from 1 April 1981, above.
Source quality: Precise citation Points to a specific work with a page, chapter, date or similar locator, so you can look it up.

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Notes from Wikiquote

It is an old joke which has been around since at least 1927.

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