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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.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Prominent
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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.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Anger
Genuine
Offering
Alternative
Unpopular
Higher Standard
Standard
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Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Allies
England
Fate
Geography
Partners
Rivals
Scotland
Comrades
Friends And Family
Neighbours
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I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Defeat
Labour
Labour Party
Political Parties
Truth Is
Electoral
Parties
Presents
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My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Fairness
Scotland
Social Justice
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Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Best Way
Britain
Consent
Labour
Time Best Home
Abroad
Advance
Best Time Home
Task
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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.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Climate Change
Peril
Change Important Climate
Concerns
Change People Important
Voices
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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.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Cameron
Conservative
Curious
Believes
Confident
Stands
Suffers
Ten Years
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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.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Bedroom
Economic Policy
Fees
Tuition
Rise
Cabinet
Nick
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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.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Borders
National Borders
Prospects
Strengthening
Ties
Believed
Exchange
Facebook
Friendships
Improves
Transcend
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If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual identities come easily to these dual screeners. They fear a separate Scotland would be a narrowing, not a broadening, experience.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Scotland
Belong
Broadening
Dual
Identities
Network
One Nation
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One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Conservative Party
Crisis
Ignorance
Response
Effective
Error
Fundamental
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In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a £10 trillion E.U., not a £1.5 trillion Britain.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Amplify
Britain
Chinese
Country
Voice
Negotiate
Trillion
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It seems to me that the Conservatives neither recognise the scale of the living standards crisis facing British families nor offer credible answers as to how the British economy or British society can be better in the future.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Credible
Recognise
Standards
Scale
Conservatives
Facing
Neither
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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.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Conservative Party
Credibility
Differences
Equally
Fundamental
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Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. However, our responsibility in the face of a growing ISIS threat is not to be paralysed by history, but to learn the correct lessons from it.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Commit
Lessons
Correct
Forces
Wrenching
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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.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Technology
Keys
Labour
Messages
Obama Campaign
People
Campaign
Empower
Historically
Send
Supporters
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Part of the reason I am so evangelical in our campaigning work is that I had an unshakeable faith in Labour values, but we needed a machine worthy of the message. I grew up with a peerless Conservative machine, with vastly superior resources.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Campaigning
Labour
Worthy
Superior
Vastly
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It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead. It is therefore vital that the legal frameworks governing their use are robust and internationally recognised.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Legal
Technology
Clear
Drones
Governing
Play
Robust
Warfare
Years
Advances
Ahead
Increased
Internationally
Therefore
Vital
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As Scots - like everyone else - we live in an increasingly inter-connected world that demands shared solutions to shared problems. Walking away from others have never been our way. Walking with others has been our heritage and still represents our best future.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Heritage
Solutions
Best Future World
Everyone Else
Increasingly
Shared
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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.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Diplomacy
Environment
Scarcity
Source
Views
Ambassador
Foreign
Minister
Send
Telegram
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Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting to defend Europe against attacks from the Eurosceptic right, it would be fatal to retreat into the same arguments and begin the battle anew.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Battle
Britain
Cost
Europe
Fighting
Retreat
Years
Anew
Attacks
Defend
Fatal
Seemed
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This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the world is at their fingertips via their smart phone. They find the idea of watching TV programmes at a time to suit the broadcaster quaint and old-fashioned.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Fingertips
Programmes
Quaint
Skype
Watching Tv
Time World Smart
Twitter
Time World Internet
Broadcaster
Facebook
Grown
Network
Suit
Via
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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.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Government
Doors
People
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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.
Douglas Alexander / British Politician
Branches
Britain
No Doubt
Below
Emerged
Unlike
Standard
Practices
Sanctioned
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