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" The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power. "

Douglas Alexander

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" My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too. "

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" I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party. "

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" Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. However, our responsibility in the face of a growing ISIS threat is not to be paralysed by history, but to learn the correct lessons from it. "

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" Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about. "

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