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1964: Labour voters are 'bonkers' says Hogg
A senior Conservative minister has stolen the show at the Conservative news conference by branding all Labour voters "bonkers".
Quintin Hogg, Lord President of the Council and Secretary for Education and Science, made his quip after mounting a stinging attack on Labour's policies. "As I see the question," he told journalists gathered at Conservative Central office in London, "it is quite plainly between sanity on our side and madness on the other side." The news conference was also attended by two other senior Tories - Viscount Blakenham, chairman of the party, and Reginald Maudling, Chancellor of the Exchequer - but neither had very much to say.
"Their policy on finance? To stop inflation by spending another £1,000 million a year." He continued criticising their plans for modernisation of the railways, education and industry. He went on: "If the British public falls for this, I say it will be stark, staring bonkers, and that is all I have got to say." His remarks produced some guffaws from journalists - one of whom proceeded to ask whether he thought the editor of The Economist was bonkers for backing Labour. He replied: "I have not examined him lately." Another journalist asked if he really thought all 13 million people who voted Labour at the last election were bonkers? He replied that it was not yet clear how many would back Labour this time. "After what I have said, perhaps none will," he said. When asked how he would describe the Liberals and Mr Hogg replied "insignificant and meaningless". Whereas, he added, Conservatives were "sound, sensible, progressive, wise, well-balanced citizens". Mr Hogg has already developed a reputation as an eccentric - and outspoken politician. In 1957 when he was party chairman, he tried to rouse the party faithful by ringing a handbell from the platform of the party conference to celebrate victory in Suez. Last summer he led the British delegation to Moscow to sign the nuclear test-ban treaty, and took an unfashionable stand on the Profumo scandal, denouncing it as a moral and not a party political issue.
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