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“Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture.”
“I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party.”
“I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.”
“If Nick Clegg hadn't been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn't have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn't have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn't have had the mistakes we've seen in economic policy.”
“Newspapers can make their own judgment in terms of who they support in a general election. Our responsibility is to make a considered judgment about where the national interest lies.”
“What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.”
“The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow... on how elections are won in the 21st century.”
“As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.”
“A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.”
“David Cameron can change the branding of the party, but he can't change the beliefs.”
“Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.”
“Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.”
“Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. However, our responsibility in the face of a growing ISIS threat is not to be paralysed by history, but to learn the correct lessons from it.”
“The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power.”
“Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.”
“I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.”
“Stories come and go. The challenge is to frame the questions that voters will be asking on polling day, such as who has avoided a global depression and worked here to deliver jobs.”
“If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.”
“Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.”
“As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.”