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've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make.
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What people want is a sense of a better future to come.
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The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be implemented is approval by the House of Commons followed by a referendum of the people of Britain. There is no question of implementing it by the back door.
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Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.
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If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.
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Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters.
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Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals.
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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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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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Our responsibility is to protect people and help them into work.
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A self-evidently confident politician, Cameron still suffers from a curious hollowness. Ten years after he became Conservative leader, many people still question what he actually stands for or believes in.
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Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.
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It appears the Scottish people have rejected separatism this evening. There was a fundamental choice -- an expensive and messy divorce or the positive policies of Labour.
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The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding.