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During the 1950 general election campaign the Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, undertook a 1,000-mile tour around Britain. He travelled in his pre-war family saloon car and was accompanied by his wife (who did the driving) and a detective. If they were ahead of schedule they stopped by the roadside and Mrs Attlee would catch up with her knitting while the Prime Minister did a crossword puzzle (see Nicholas, 1951, pp. 93–4).
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The quotation is used as the title of an article on the 1987 campaign by Pippa Norris (1987). The allusion is, of course, to Macbeth, Act V Scene v.
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Denver, D. (1994). Party Leaders, Election Campaigns and the Media. In: Elections and Voting Behaviour in Britain. Contemporary Political Studies Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14905-6_5
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