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I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

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Disunity costs votes.

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I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

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Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.

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I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.

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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

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I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

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In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: March 29th, 1943

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