When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues…

Margaret Thatcher
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When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. ✨ On the Falklands campaign, 1982, in Chris Rose 'The Dirty Man of Europe'
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When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. ✨ On the Falklands campaign, 1982, in Chris Rose 'The Dirty Man of Europe'

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