Ken Clarke > Quotes

“Studies. John Gummer had already attended one meeting of this”
― Ken Clarke, Kind of Blue

“David Cameron did indeed resign about four hours after the result of the referendum became clear, which was the only honourable thing for him to do. Like a gambler on a lucky streak, he had stayed at the table for one too many hands and lost it all.”
― Ken Clarke, Kind of Blue

“David’s chancer-like gamble, taken for tactical internal party-management reasons, turned out to be the worst political mistake made by any British prime minister in my lifetime.”
― Ken Clarke, Kind of Blue

“I always regarded him as a One Nation Conservative who admired Margaret Thatcher and had somehow wound up in the Labour Party because his wife was a left-wing political activist and he had an innate distaste for the old Tory tradition.”
― Ken Clarke, Kind of Blue

“With hindsight, going to Nottingham High School transformed my whole life. I think that six boys and six girls from Highbury Primary School had got through the 11-plus and they should all have gone to High Pavement Grammar School or Manning Grammar School for Girls. But not all of them were allowed to take up their places because their parents either did not wish them to belong to such grand establishments, or possibly – and perhaps more likely – they could not afford the compulsory uniform. And two of the girls were not allowed to go to Manning because their parents could not see the point of girls having a secondary education at all.”
― Ken Clarke, Kind of Blue