37 quotes found
Politician · British · 1943
British politician (born 1943)
“We haven't yet heard about 'Brexit jihadis' but there is an undercurrent of violence in the language which is troubling.”
“Growing inequality is linked to poor economic performance, greater instability, more social tension, insecurity and unhappiness.”
“We are the party of remain. We believe membership of the EU is in our country's interest.”
“No-one has come up with a plausible explanation about how leaving [the EU] will make us better off than we are inside. Nobody has come up with a plausible explanation about how this process can be ...”
“On his central point, the £350m a week, this is a lie. He knows it is a lie and endlessly repeating it does not make it the truth.”
“I love slightly dangerous things. High energy, edgy things. I learned to ski when I was 63, which is a bit hazardous. But I go off once a year to the place where the Russian mafia assemble in the A...”
“In a Britain increasingly dominated by extremists and ideologues, I want us to fill the huge gap in the centre of British politics.”
“There is another word for that - masochism. It isn't illegal. I am told some people pay good money to indulge in it. But unlike masochists, the Brexit ideologues usually envisage someone else beari...”
“[There is a] fundamental economic issue of whether any company which uses data from individuals to make money should pay the owner of that data for its use... The new oil is data. Data is the raw m...”
“I think the interesting thing about Windrush is that perhaps for the first time the public opinion has been ahead of the politicians in seeing that there is a terrible injustice here and it should ...”
“The immediate preoccupation is to work with people in other parties to stop Brexit, but in the longer term there may well be realignment because of the deep splits in the parties and I want my part...”
“Liberal democracy itself is under threat notably in the USA, in eastern Europe and perhaps here. Authoritarians and extremists of both right and left are on the march.”
“I think it's very clear that people in Scotland, as in other parts of the United Kingdom, don't want Brexit to happen. They want to stop it and it can be stopped, and the best mechanism for stoppin...”
“Whether you see yourself as a liberal, social democrat, progressive, or centrist there is a home for you here, particularly as we fight Brexit together”
“We're absolutely solid that we need to vote against Brexit and stop it.”
“Brexit is not inevitable - it can and it must be stopped,”
“We are absolutely solid that we need to vote against Brexit and stop it”