Robert McKenzie, writing in the Observer, October 10, said; "It must never be fergotten that the Tory Party, with its overwhelming upper and upper middleclass leadership, has in a sense been living on borrowed time for at least a century since the enfranchisement of the urban working class in 1867. The working class probably constitued $ of the electorate in the late 19th century and it still composes # today, It is a major historical anomaly that it should be a party of the right rather than of the left which is the normal majority party in this country,"
The WeekThe Week Vol. 4, No. 15, 21 October 1965
Tories "living on Borrowed Time" ~- Borrowed From Labour!
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