We are going to build the Tories out of London. - Herbert Morrison

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We are going to build the Tories out of London.

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About Herbert Morrison

Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth, CH PC (3 January 1888 – 6 March 1965) was a British Labour Party politician and Cabinet minister. He led the Labour Party to control the London County Council from 1934. In the wartime coalition and postwar Attlee government, Morrison held various cabinet posts, including Foreign Secretary, Deputy Prime Minister and w:Home Secretary. Morrison was very close to attaining the leadership of the party at various points in his career, but Clement Attlee distrusted him and deliberately prolonged his own leadership in order to prevent him from winning.

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Native Name: Herbert Stanley Morrison
Alternative Names: Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
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