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Welfare reform isn't easy.
Terrorists follow tried and tested tactics.
Of course, we must properly equip our troops.
Michael Gove is the right leader for the country.
Ultimately what is not needed now is recriminations.
I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.
Feminists are now amongst the most obnoxious bigots.
I'll keep fighting for the best, most successful Brexit.
No one fights with more principle and passion than Michael Gove.
Courts should interpret the law but leave elected lawmakers to create it.
No other country ties its hands in deporting foreign criminals as Britain does.
We were striving and struggling not just for a dream ticket, but a dream team...
Israel's system of proportional representation rarely produces stable government.
State educators have confused the length of formal education with real-life skills.
No-one wants to see a return to the hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.
For all its pro-democracy rhetoric, the West rolled over to military coups in Egypt and Thailand.
I cannot support an indefinite backstop arrangement where the E.U. holds a veto over our ability to exit.
One reason women are left 'holding the baby' is anti-male discrimination in rights of maternity/paternity leave.
Whether we are in or out of the E.U., we must deliver reform at home in order to compete abroad in the 21st century.
I also think when it comes to delivering on Brexit, we need someone with a passion but also the mastery of the detail.
The typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty: it's someone who has a cash flow problem.
From the cradle to the grave, men are getting a raw deal. Men work longer hours, die earlier, but retire later than women.
Boris [Johnson] was cavalier with assurances he made. We're picking a prime minister here to lead the country, not a school prefect.
Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.
Iraq lacks leaders capable of soothing sectarian wounds, and Western attempts to pick them or force their hand invite anti-imperialist backlash.
While we have some of the toughest anti-discrimination laws in the world, we are blind to some of the most flagrant discrimination - against men.
As for the dream of a global Britain trading more energetically from Asia to Latin America, the E.U. has tied our hands, hobbling those ambitions.
Michael Gove is the right leader for the country ... He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate.
Putting together a really strong unifying team was an absolute condition. When that fell away, I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.
When Britain signed up to the European Convention and its later protocols, the words 'universal suffrage' were deleted from the 'right to vote' article.
The government rightly resisted pressure to accept Free Movement of people from E.U. countries, to allow us to regain control over our immigration policy.
Introducing a voting threshold for strike action would save the country billions, unleashing productivity gains from rail infrastructure to administration.
Control orders put people not convicted of any crime under virtual house arrest based on scant evidence. Billed as a security backstop, they proved unreliable.
The something-for-nothing culture has been championed by a minority of militant union leaders, who threaten strikes with impunity to secure unjustifiable pay hikes.
Working as a Foreign Office lawyer in 2003, I was less worried by the quibbling over U.N. resolutions on Iraq than the coalition's capacity to effect positive change.
Despite egregious human rights abuses, military dictatorship in Greece, and Russian atrocities in Chechnya, no state has ever been voted out of the Council of Europe.
Far from protecting children, the abuse of Article 8 risks making them pawns - subject to coercion or worse - as part of a criminal's desperate struggle to stay in Britain.
Legal executives often specialise in areas such as conveyancing, family law, probate, and litigation. Training is typically spread over five years of combined study and work.
Britain should take pride in a foreign policy that reflects her values and responsibilities - but it must be grounded in the tangible interests of the citizens who pay for it.
Of course, the E.U. were never going to welcome Brexit. Some sour grapes were inevitable. That's why we worked hard to leave on positive terms, extending the arm of friendship.
Ingenious prisoners have successfully claimed a range of novel entitlements, from fertility treatment to a right to keep twigs in their cells to wave as wands in pagan rituals.
You can't help your background or innate talents. But anyone can graft: that's why there are success stories like that of Tony Pidgley, the founder and owner of Berkeley Homes.
British intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan swelled the grievances home-grown fanatics fed off, while al Qaeda morphed and re-grouped in lawless sanctuaries from Somalia to Yemen.
Sacrificing British liberties will not protect us. It just plays into the hands of the terrorists. The justice system is not the problem. It is part of the solution. We can fight terror - and defend freedom.
We should protect free speech by repealing offences that stifle legitimate debate - like 'glorification' of terrorism and religious hatred - but take a 'zero-tolerance' approach to extremists inciting violence.
Britain rightly sees herself as a global good citizen, but she must reconcile ambition with power, ends with means - shedding utopian idealism in favour of a more rugged internationalism, putting the national interest first, not last.
Beyond the U.S. and E.U., Britain should deepen ties with the Commonwealth and the rising powers of Asia and Latin America - calibrated to our national interest in promoting the global goods of free trade, democracy, and basic human rights.
The Government should be held accountable if it puts soldiers at unnecessary risk, which is why it is vital to retain full transparency in inquests. Governments also have a moral obligation to ensure proper care for the injured and their families.
We have seen too many arbitrary Strasbourg diktats based on the whims of European judges - from prisoner voting to blocking deportation of Abu Qatada - rather than a sober reading of the sensible list of core freedoms in the European Convention itself.