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I do think our challenge is to balance credibility and a clear message about how we would reduce the deficit with boldness about the choices that we put before the public.

~Douglas Alexander

Topics: About Balance Before Boldness Challenge Choices Clear Credibility Deficit How Message Our Public Put Reduce Think Would

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It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.

~Douglas Alexander

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Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.

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A self-evidently confident politician, Cameron still suffers from a curious hollowness. Ten years after he became Conservative leader, many people still question what he actually stands for or believes in.

~Douglas Alexander

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As shadow foreign secretary, I have been as clear in my support for the government when it does something we agree with as I am in highlighting that which we oppose.

~Douglas Alexander

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David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.

~Douglas Alexander

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Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad.

~Douglas Alexander

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I'm at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it's important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril.

~Douglas Alexander

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Stories come and go. The challenge is to frame the questions that voters will be asking on polling day, such as who has avoided a global depression and worked here to deliver jobs.

~Douglas Alexander

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When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.

~Douglas Alexander

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: October 26th, 1967

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