- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dreams of taking the West End by storm as a dancer flickered but then faded; my father’s ambition to see me in a steady office job was tried and abandoned. But I had won a national speaking award, had stood for election to the local council, had begun to travel and took a job working for the Labour Party.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever your age, think about the young generation. And try to give them back the future being taken from them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People talk often of Brexit as the biggest challenge since the Second World War. It is certainly proving to be a lot more difficult and complicated than was promised by those who won the referendum campaign in 2016.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I travelled to Germany to witness for myself what nationalism, populism and the breakdown of peace between the great European nations had done. Amidst the rubble I made great friends who have remained friends for the rest of our lives.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not let anyone get away with the argument that tearing our country out of one of the most successful partnerships in our history is somehow a great act of patriotism. It is not.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came out of the womb into the Labour movement.
- Dust
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- Nov 07, 2020
It’s like miners’ coal dust underneath your fingernails. Very difficult to scrub out. I’m a social democrat to my fingertips.
- Good People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are very good people in the Labour Party who I would like to see in leadership.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Labour ends up on the scrapheap of history, it will do so because of its own foolishness and self-inflicted wounds. What party in its right mind would allow a combination of far-left enemies, militant trade unions and first-time supporters to decide its fate?
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
You’ve got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it would have been nice to have a family; it would be nice to have grandchildren.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say to myself: ‘Come on, Betty, you can’t have everything in life. You’ve been very lucky.'
- Fascists
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- Nov 07, 2020
We fought big time fascists when I was knee high to a grasshopper up in Yorkshire, when I grew up I fought fascists in the West Midlands in the form of the National Front.
- Duck
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don’t duck democratic choices out of fear of fascists.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe needs us just as much as we need Europe and it's time to stop fiddling for a solution, it's time to implement the solution.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020