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Margaret Hodge Quotes

born 1944 United Kingdom

Margaret Eve Hodge, Baroness Hodge of Barking DBE PC (née Oppenheimer, formerly Watson; born 8 September 1944) is a British politician and life peer who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barking from a by-election in 1994 until the 2024 United Kingdom general election. A member of the Labour Party, she previously served as Leader of Islington Borough Council, London from 1982 to 1992.

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It was only because of his actions and his words that I came to the decision in 2018; this man was an antisemite and a racist.

At this moment of grave danger, we simply cannot allow the party to flounder, become utterly irrelevant to the political debate and disintegrate into a second-rate pressure group. Make no mistake — unless we listen to our voters, our party faces political oblivion.

We as a nation should understand that how we treat those who escape from persecution and genocide is central to our reputation as a country that boasts a humanitarian approach to genocide and the Holocaust.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margaret Hodge (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.