"David has had the idea that the voters to try and win are defecting Tories... I personally have always held that we must try to replace the Labour Party."
— Shirley Williams

January 1, 1970

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Remarks to Hugo Young (8 August 1984), quoted in Hugo Young, The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of British Politics – Off the Record, ed. Ion Trewin (2008), p. 206