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We should not replace pity with fear in our relationship with the working class. It is a source of shame that Labour did not and does not represent the hopes and fears of the working class, by becoming a party that disapproves of their fears and is nervous of their hopes.

— Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

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What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.

Certainly getting the rotten vegetables and fruit from the supermarket and people having a chance to express their disgust at what they’ve been through, I don't think that's such a bad idea

New Labour’s community development work was all private-sector driven, consultation-tinged regeneration that was done to poor people rather than being controlled by them. I found it, on the whole, a massive waste of money.

We need to build incentives to virtue rather than incentives to vice, which prevail in the existing system and are self-interested, instrumental and unrelational. That’s the direction of travel. Towards the Common Good.

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[President] Trump recognises people want our own industry protected and we want secure borders. That is what people in the UK want too.

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