“I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.”
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My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.