Lord Spicer
Main Page: Lord Spicer (Conservative - Life peer)My Lords, on the morning of the Battle of Waterloo the Duke wrote: “I have no time to write a short letter so I will write a long one”. He was probably referring to a divorce case in which he was unfortunately one of the cited parties. Is it not the case that, had the journalistic practices that prevail today applied in that time, he might never have been supreme commander and we might have lost?
My Lords, we can all be extremely grateful for the Duke of Wellington’s courage and bravery.