Talk:Alec Douglas-Home

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• I'm not particulary attracted by confrontations of personality. If we aren't careful we'll get a sort of 'Top of the Pops' contest, I daresay I should win it. But at any rate, I'm not very much attracted by this because you'll then get the best actor as leader of the country, and the actor will be prompted by a scriptwriter. I'd rather have our old ways really and put our policies firmly in front of our people.
  • Panorama interview, 1963

• There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.