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Prime Ministers may often receive advice about decisions that need to be made, but sometimes they take no heed
The Times
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Sir, Harold Macmillan did indeed choose Michael Ramsey as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1961 (report, Mar 17), much to the displeasure of the retiring primate, Geoffrey Fisher.

“Dr Ramsey is a theologian, a scholar and a man of prayer. Therefore he is entirely unsuitable as Archbishop of Canterbury,” Fisher told the Prime Minister. “I have known him all my life. I was his headmaster at Repton.”

“You may have been his headmaster,” replied Macmillan, “but you are not mine.”

D. R. Thorpe
Banbury, Oxon