The author of "Would You Believe It?" has trawled the voluminous pages of "Hansard" to produce a collection of utterances by politicians which in the course of time turned out to be wildly wrong or unintentionally amusing - and often both. Divided into topics such as motoring, votes for women, child labour, education and capital punishment, it contains such items as the objection to free education of Earl Fortescue in 1880. He complained that it took away a source of cheap labour for weeding, and that as a result "the weeds have very much multiplied".
- ISBN10 0751503703
- ISBN13 9780751503708
- Publish Date 28 October 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Time Warner Paperbacks
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 378
- Language English