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" Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union. "
Michael Gove
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" Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted. "
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" I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights. "
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" Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school. "
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" The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union. "
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" I won't criticise anyone else's statements, and the public will make up their own minds. And if the public think that any side or any individual has strayed too far away from what's expected of public representatives, then they'll make that judgement. "
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" The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people. "
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" The first thing I would like to say is that I don't think folk at Westminster - or for that matter at Holyrood - constitute an elite. They are representatives who are elected and who are at the service of voters who can fire them. "
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" What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda. "
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" One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers. "
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" In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible. "
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" There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. "
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" I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy. "
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