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I think it very essential to the welfare of this Empire that Labour…

Quote byAlfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe · 1865–1922

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Frank Dilnot, the editor of Daily Citizen, the official newspaper of the Labour Party (1912), quoted in Reginald Pound and Geoffrey Harmsworth, Northcliffe (1959), p. 434.

English (original)

I think it very essential to the welfare of this Empire that Labour should have a proper newspaper. We have the only representative Parliament in the world. I should like a really representative Press.

— Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

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