Francis Maude Quotes
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The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.
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We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.
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Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.
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We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
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The party at its best has always been a modern party.
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I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.
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David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today
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If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.
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So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.
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Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.
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It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
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It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.
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