- Citizenry
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Flexibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Businesses that fail to develop their staff are twice as likely to collapse. Firms seeking to reposition themselves for the economic upturn need to invest in their staff's flexibility, responsiveness and skills.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.
- Nov 07, 2020
In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted wounds.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their willingness to engage in our democracy, and for being there at the cutting edge of making our democracy work.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn't badly paid compared with any of my constituents.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.
- Civil Society
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- Nov 07, 2020