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Hansard gems: who hates mice more, cats or foxes?

It’s February 1940. The country is at war. The question of the moment: inter-species enmity.

Sir Arthur Heneage: Is it not a fact that foxes are the greatest enemy of rats and mice?

John Morgan: Cats.

Cats, possibly, who we can learn political lessons from?

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