British - Politician | March 28, 1942 -
Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
Neil Kinnock
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In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
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Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.
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People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.
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I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.
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My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
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I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.
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If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.
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There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.
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I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.
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