Liam Fox
Liam Fox
Liam Foxis a British Conservative politician who has been the Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade since 2016. He has been the Member of Parliamentfor North Somerset since 1992 and was Secretary of State for Defence from 2010 to 2011...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 September 1961
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It was wrong for the European Union's foreign affairs spokesman Javier Solana to rule out the use of force. It is wrong for Britain's Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, to echo him.
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The whole thing is really quite pathetic. Here we have two self-obsessed schoolboys who spend all their time thinking about themselves and their future and not the future of the country.
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Britain needs an education system that is appropriate to both society and the individual - and it is wrong to pretend that watering down academic standards in pursuit of universal achievement will do that,
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I've made it very clear what I believe in -- a sense of family, community, respect for the law, Britain controlling its own direction,
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There's no point in asking focus groups. I go down the pub and hear about it there.
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It is entirely a matter for David whether or not he wants to be open about that.
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I am the only candidate who is going into this contest with a positive vision of the future,
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lied and broke the law and he must answer for that.
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Sending our Armed Forces across an international border clearly is a major political decision, with profound implications for Britain's international relations,
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The Opposition should be concentrating on opposing the government rather than involving themselves in endless speculation
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There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect.
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It's simply not sensible for the government to say there's no link. What I think is surprising is that the government denies there's any link - but the government's handling of this has been rather inept politically from start to finish.
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It's simply not sensible ... for the government to say there is no link whatsoever between what is happening in Iraq and what is happening in terms of recruiting extremists.
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It's a question of whether they have learned any lessons at all.