Everybody’s saying it, even though the latest research declares that only 6 per cent of the population is given to the habit. I mean saying an historic.
Sir John Major, though a Knight of the Garter, is proud of his origins in Brixton and Worcester Park, but started the present vogue at Chatham House in February by saying in a speech that the referendum vote to leave the EU was ‘an historic mistake’.
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