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" A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur. "

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" It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq. "

" The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War. "

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" Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe. "

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