Daily quote by Clement Attlee

• It's a very limited alliance, purely European, and it really, I think, breaks the unity of the Commonwealth. In my mind, the Commonwealth is immensely important, because it is multi-racial: Asiatic, African, Australian, and American. I think it's a retrograde step to go back to a purely European union.
  • On his opposition to Britain joining the Common Market
  • Interviewed on his eightieth birthday, 1963