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AN WILSON: Ditch Churchill for Doctor Who on our banknotes? This isn't Strictly Come Dancing! A public vote will be a grim orgy of virtue-signalling

When you have been abroad and change your currency back into sterling, doesn't the humble fiver - with Churchill on one side and the late Queen or the King overleaf - tell you that you're home?

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