Polly Toynbee Quotes
Cabinet making is necessarily ruthless.
Mary Louisa Toynbee, Polly Toynbee, President, British Humanist Association, Journalist & Columnist, “The fight for the centre ground is throttling British politics”, The Guardian, June 29, 2007
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Mary Louisa "Polly" Toynbee is a British journalist and writer. She has been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper since 1998.
