Marjorie Scardino

“It takes a long time to build democracy, to build freedom.”

“At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.”

“The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic.”

“I think the business community is smart enough to realise that just having a trade union is not enough. They are smart enough to know they need to be part of a union that has political and financial power.”