Douglas Alexander
Douglas Alexander
Douglas Garven Alexanderis a British Labour politician who was the Shadow Foreign Secretary and former Member of Parliamentfor Paisley and Renfrewshire South...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 October 1967
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I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.
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David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.
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David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most.
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David Cameron can change the branding of the party, but he can't change the beliefs.
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Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit.
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As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.
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Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.
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A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.
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Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.
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I'm at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it's important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril.
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The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.
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Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.
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Our responsibility is to protect people and help them into work.
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As shadow foreign secretary, I have been as clear in my support for the government when it does something we agree with as I am in highlighting that which we oppose.