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Letters: the history of centrist parties does not bode well for the ‘breakaway seven’

23 February 2019

9:00 AM

23 February 2019

9:00 AM

The breakaway seven

Sir: ‘In both parties there are fools at one end and crackpots at the other, but the great body in the middle is sound and wise.’ One of the magnificent seven speaking this week? Well, the sentiment is surely present day, but rather they are the words of Churchill in 1913 trying to engineer a centrist national movement from ‘a fusion of the two parties’.

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