"It is with relief that I now address you as someone about to go into retirement. I am both relieved and pleased because I am now assured that I have left the party in better hands, to a leadership contender who won fairly and squarely and by a significant margin. I have always felt that the first and last thing an honorable leader should do is find a worthy successor, and, this being done, I now leave you in Claire Khaw's very capable hands and wish you all the best of British luck."
THE VOICE OF REASON Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
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