A book I have been reading recently includes an anecdote of a new junior minister being appointed to the Foreign Office in the 1950s. He said:"Prime Minister I think there has been a mistake. I don't speak any foreign languages. I have never been to a foreign country except in time of war, and I don't like foreigners." To which Churchill replied: "Young man these are all advantages."
It seems to me at times that attitudes in our current government are not dissimilar to Churchill's.
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