Quotes
- "Scarcely any Guardian or Independent article involving David Evans, former Tory MP for Welwyn and Hatfield, failed to mention his car-salesman's accent, a sound to chill the blood of any liberal – it seemed the incarnation of Thatcherite brutalism." — John Mullan, The Guardian, 18 June 1999.
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