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We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines through British history. Our commitment to fairness, fair play and civic duty.

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Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 20
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We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.
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Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge
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In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.
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[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.
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Britain and Pakistan will jointly fight the menace of terrorism .. Both the countries are facing a common threat of terrorism and we know that Pakistan is even more committed to fighting this menace
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I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen.
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56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.
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America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.
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Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.
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I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.
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Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.
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My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.
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Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth.
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...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.
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I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.
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The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman [David Cameron] may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist...
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What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.
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The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.
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It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country.
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So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.
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