Editing Mandy Rice-Davies (section)

==="Well he would, wouldn't he?"===
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Stephen Ward was found guilty of [[Prostitution in the United Kingdom|living on the earnings of prostitution]], from money obtained from Rice-Davies and Keeler among others, at a trial instigated after the embarrassment caused to the government.

While being cross-examined at Ward's trial, when [[James Burge]], the defence counsel, pointed out that [[William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor|Lord Astor]] denied an affair or even having met her, she dispatched this swiftly with pert humour, "Well he would, wouldn't he?"<ref name="9ehFV">{{citation | last=Robertson | first=Geoffrey |author-link=Geoffrey Robertson| title=Mandy Rice-Davies: fabled player in a very British scandal | website=The Guardian | date=19 December 2014 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/19/mandy-rice-davies-fabled-player-british-scandal-profumo | access-date=14 July 2015}}</ref> Often misquoted in other contexts as: "Well he would say that, wouldn't he?",<ref name="w31vX"> which became a popular phrase among politicians in Britain, used to indicate scepticism of a claim due to the obvious bias of the person making the claim. Examples of this phrase:
* [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-comm-01/cent01-003.htm Scottish Parliament committee news release] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051109025515/http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-comm-01/cent01-003.htm |date=9 November 2005}} 22 February 2001 "So perhaps there is a slight Mandy Rice Davies feel to this backing with a hint of 'well he would, wouldn't he?'."
* [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200102/ldhansrd/vo020206/text/20206-05.htm Lords Hansard text for 6 Feb 2002] "I pause to anticipate the interjection—'He would say that, wouldn't he?'" spoken by [[Lord McIntosh of Haringey]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060113041118/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1979651,00.html Well he would say that, wouldn't he?] by [[Bronwen Maddox]] in ''[[The Times]]'' 11 January 2006.</ref> by 1979, this phrase had entered the third edition of the ''[[Oxford Dictionary of Quotations]]'', and is occasionally referred to with the abbreviation MRDA ("Mandy Rice-Davies applies").<ref name="wWE4e">{{Citation| last=Worstall | first=Tim | title=Unilever Boss Says You'll Just Have To Suffer Price Rises Post-Brexit – Well, He Would, Wouldn't He? |magazine=Forbes |date=28 January 2017 |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/01/28/unilever-boss-says-youll-just-have-to-suffer-price-rises-post-brexit-well-he-would-wouldnt-he/ |access-date=4 July 2020}}; Also {{Citation |last=Phillips |first=Tim |year=2011 |title=Fit to Bust: How Great Companies Fail|publisher=Kogan Page Publishers |isbn=978-0-7494-6014-3|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Cb9j_dgkhOsC&pg=PA108 108]}}</ref>