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Brexit is not a viable path for Britain.
I don't answer deeply hypothetical questions.
I am an electoral reformer and an ex-Lib Dem.
I have to confess, street politics are not my usual style.
The SDP's founder, Roy Jenkins, was my hero and later mentor.
Academies place a high premium on local community engagement.
Resistance to Brexit is the logic of everything Labour stands for.
Good government has essentially broken down in the face of Brexit.
International examples prove that high-speed rail pays for itself.
I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.
In politics, exhaustion and attrition need to be overcome, not indulged.
We shouldn't leave the E.U. until we have trade protection at least as good.
Theresa May is singularly unsuited for high office and lacks political talent.
Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.
In the end, pragmatism requires a workable compromise. But none exists on Brexit.
The Conservatives have been unusually badly led by David Cameron and Theresa May.
In the hands of great school leaders, Teach First can make a spectacular difference.
I'm never drunk. I do drink but never more than a glass or two of wine a day if that.
London's night economy is huge and it couldn't function without London's night buses.
Brexit has always been an impossible project, except at the price of massive self-harm.
Nobody knows the tragedy of a small island divided against itself better than a Cypriot.
Having achieved something so special as peace, it is criminal to throw it away on a whim.
Austerity and Brexit are two sides of the same coin, like the Brexit party and the Tories.
Teachers need to have the capacity to spot those that are struggling early on and intervene.
The people should make the final decision on Brexit when they see the government's Brexit deal.
Global warming - utterly disinterested in our political paralysis - worsens at a terrifying pace.
All partners in the workplaces have a key role to play in training a workforce fit for the future.
I have been called many things in public life, but the cap that best fits is that of the centrist dad.
It is clear to me that when London has expanded successfully in the past, there has always been a plan.
It is a vital British and European interest to demonstrate to Putin that Trump is on our side, not his.
By neglecting education, the 1974 Labour government failed as surely as on the picket lines of Grunwick.
Teach First is uniquely placed to help universities broaden the social background of their student intake.
On the left, nationalisation is pursued for its own sake - as a panacea that will somehow fix train travel all by itself.
When I was a minister I only went on about things I was going to make happen. I very rarely talked about things I wasn't.
Developing survival skills in life is incredibly important and I was very lucky that I developed them at a very young age.
For me, no one aspect of the Brexit debate displays so markedly the monomania of many Brexiteers as does the Irish question.
The partial exception to our London-centric state institutions is the monarchy, which has always had peripatetic tendencies.
In the hundreds of hours spent in Parliament debating Brexit, I constantly think of how we could have spent our time better.
Labour is the party of the NHS and the environment and fighting for better workplace and civic rights for working men and women.
We have moral duties to the dispossessed - and should be taking our fair share of Syrian refugees, particularly parentless children.
Theresa May has much to answer for, but it is not her fault that she couldn't square the circle of the Brexiteers' lies: nobody could.
No matter the evidence or the experience, the Conservative party has been allergic to direct state involvement in running our railways.
From the ruins of the second world war, Labour rebuilt Britain and set it on course for European co-operation and membership of the E.U.
Night buses serve not only the leisure economy- pubs, bars, clubs, theatres and concerts- but also hundreds of thousands of night workers.
When a small number of companies control both the generation and the supply of energy, it's difficult for new players to enter the market.
England is so dominant within the U.K. that separate English and U.K. parliaments and governments are a recipe for weakness and instability.
I was warned by the private sector that we would fail and would fail badly. 'The state can't run a railway,' I was told. Well, they were wrong.
I'm prepared to argue with some of my Labour colleagues about doing what it takes to see that every school has the governance needed to succeed.
The motorway network helps bind Britain together. It remains an extraordinary achievement, making a huge contribution to our economy and our way of life.
It is simply not possible to achieve the 'freedom' from E.U. economic institutions that Brexiters want without undermining Britain's economy and security.