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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We do not know who planted the explosive device and cannot speculate at this time,
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The Network Generation are secure in, and proud of, their Scottishness. Unlike my generation that grew up in the '80s, they don't see our sense of identity as under threat.
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The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow... on how elections are won in the 21st century.
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If Nick Clegg hadn't been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn't have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn't have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn't have had the mistakes we've seen in economic policy.
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What people want is a sense of a better future to come.
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Turkey and Croatia are naturally separated topics, conditions were given for both of them, ... The council of foreign ministers will decide objectively based on these conditions.
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What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.
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As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.
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There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in the U.S. that fall far below the standard of conduct that should have taken place. It is for the American system of government, in all of its branches, to address that. It is not for a British politician.
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It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.
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It would be better if we were able to get a deal, but it had to be the right deal. It needs to be the right deal for Britain, and it needs to be the right deal for Europe.
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Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government. But we need to set ourselves a higher standard than a party offering anger like UKIP.
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The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.
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The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent.