My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.
Quoted in Glenys Kinnock and Fiona Millar (eds) By Faith and Daring (1993).
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My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.