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This country needs nothing less than wholesale federalisation. The reasons are threefold: economic, democratic and cultural.
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
Mum eventually graduated with a City & Guilds certificate that hung proudly on our living room wall throughout my childhood.
Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.
I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.
There were some who wanted all the benefits of E.U. membership without any of the costs. I'm not sure that's very realistic.
Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.
There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity.
I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.
Great political leaders risk unpopularity, patiently explain their case and confront prejudice, bigotry and vested interests.
If I'd not been a coal miner in the past, getting up very early, I wouldn't have been able to have done what I've been doing.
I was cycling until I was 68. I used to play football, cricket, tennis, table tennis. I was into road walking - heel and toe.
David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.
Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum.
Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.
One big theme for me is that we have got to move from an economy built on debt to one where we save and invest in the future.
Our history tells us that public institutions evolve through a process of bargaining between the state and groups in society.
A politician can go out and speak for him or herself, but actually for the family it's difficult - although it does bind you.
A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.
Anyone who's working in manufacturing here should know they will have increased opportunities if we leave the European Union.
We are not some small landlocked European country who needs the E.U. to make decisions for us or protect us from competition.
Labour allowed ourselves to be painted as anti-business for talking about insecurity, when in reality, the opposite was true.
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.
We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!
I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.
Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.
I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities.
I always said it was my ambition to have a library - I have one - and my dream was to have a pool. Then 'Strictly' came along.
Students from other E.U. countries are worth billions to our economy and help drive it through their hard work and innovation.
Few Conservatives MPs have taken any pleasure from the witch-hunt against moderate Labour MPs by the hard-Left Momentum group.
When I was at school, you could tell the demography of children by how thin they were. You could see by looking at their eyes.
If the tax loop holes that allow tax avoidance were shut down, it would go some way to sorting out our finances, would it not?
I grew up under Thatcher; the era of apartheid; the era of the poll tax; the era of riots. I remember Neil Kinnock was a hero.
When I was growing up, I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I used to sing and dance and perform with my sister at parties for 50p.
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.
You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.
The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.
The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.
We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.
In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.
One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers.
We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.