With reference to the letter by Eddy Privitera (The Sunday Times, December 26), former British Prime Minister Tony Blair had quoted this phrase by Mario Cuomo, former Governor of New York: “Political parties and politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose.” (Time magazine, September 13, 2010).

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