Quotes by Ed Davey - Page 2

We must face up to the long-term failures of Britain's approach to immigration and make the argument for an effective, compassionate and liberal alternative.
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Compassionate
Immigration
Long Term
Alternative
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We need to invest in home-grown clean energy that will bring cheaper prices in the long run, shielding consumers from volatile international fossil fuel markets.
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Cheaper
Clean Energy
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
Invest
Fossil
Long Run
Markets
Prices
Volatile
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As a carer for my disabled son, I understand just how hard caring is, at the best of times. I know how important it is for families to get the support they need.
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Caring
Disabled
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Climate change threatens serious economic disruption to us all with serious implications to global stability and the impact it will have on the whole of humanity.
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Climate Change
Disruption
Implications
Stability
Threatens
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I'm all in favour of talking to other parties, always have been, always will be. I'm a pluralist, talk to them, see what we've got in common, work together, fine.
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Favour
Work Together Will
Work Together Always
Work Together
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The U.K. has been at the forefront of developing the climate change policy architecture that can ensure climate action is integrated into economic decision making.
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Architecture
Climate Change
Integrated
Forefront
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A credible and effective response to climate change - which protects future generations from an unacceptable level of risk - needs the involvement of all countries.
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Climate Change
Credible
Generations
Involvement
Response
Change Future Climate
Future Generations
Protects
Unacceptable
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The truth is, it was my Nanna and Grandad who helped me get over my mum's death. Surrounding me with infinite, unquestioning love, they were classic kinship carers.
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Infinite
Surrounding
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Ed Miliband rails against energy companies and says the market isn't working. But wasn't he Britain's first secretary of state for energy and climate change in 2008?
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Climate Change
Secretary
Change Energy Climate
Rails
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We want the NHS to be able to recruit the doctors and nurses it needs. And we want British businesses to be free to hire the best workers from anywhere in the world.
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Doctors
Nhs
Recruit
Hire
Nurses
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I don't ever talk about red lines whether in coalition negotiations with other partners or in Europe. It is important that we listen to others and find a way forward.
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Partners
Coalition
Negotiations
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What's most disappointing about May's failure on climate change is that Britain played such a pivotal role in securing international agreement on it in the first place.
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Climate Change
Disappointing
Pivotal
First Place
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British leadership in Europol has made the law-enforcement agency far more effective, and we have been influential in making human trafficking one of its top priorities.
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Agency
Influential
Trafficking
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For Liberal Democrats, the political choice between the hard Brexit menus offered by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt might seem about as tempting as arsenic verses strychnine.
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Johnson
Tempting
Verses
Brexit
Hunt
Jeremy
Liberal Democrats
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The reality is that no country's actions alone will create the impact required to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius - we all need to be part of the solution.
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Degrees
Temperature
Limit
Required
Solution
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We now have the economics confirming that not only is climate action required to reduce climate risks, but that it is vital to building long-term, sustainable economic growth.
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Economic Growth
Long Term
Confirming
Sustainable
Reduce
Required
Vital
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One of the most exciting opportunities created by renewable energy technologies like solar is the ability to help the world's poorest develop faster - but more sustainably too.
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Faster
Poorest
Renewable Energy
World Energy Renewable Energy
Renewable
Solar
Technologies
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There was a time before my O-levels when I remember thinking I used to study hard and work hard to please my mother, like most young children. And then I realised I'm doing this for me.
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Realised
Young Children
Work Time Thinking
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We have ensured through the 2013 Energy Act that low-carbon energy resources have a secure future in our energy mix. Wind, tidal, nuclear, biomass and CCS all have a major role to play.
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Secure
Wind
Major Role
Mix
Tidal
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In both world wars, Britain understood that our national sovereignty could only endure if we cooperated with other nations. That our fate is inexorably bound with that of our neighbours.
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Endure
Fate
National Sovereignty
Sovereignty
Bound
Inexorably
Neighbours
World Wars
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What I saw in my first year as secretary of state was a danger that if Britain didn't lead the way on climate change nothing would happen. I thought: If I don't lead, no one else is going to.
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Climate Change
Danger
Secretary
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When we fight to uphold the rule of law, it's vital we uphold the rule of law as we fight. Otherwise we simply play into the hands of the terrorists and undermine our values and system of justice.
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Rule Of Law
Terrorists
Undermine
Uphold
Vital
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It's crucial we make the case for institutions like Nato and the E.U. as foundations for the peace and prosperity we have enjoyed for decades - and which too many people appear to take for granted.
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Crucial
Decades
Enjoyed
Granted
Institutions
Nato
Prosperity
Appear
Case
Foundations
Take For Granted
Too Many People
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No-deal Brexit could be Boris Johnson's biggest deception yet - worse than the Boris bus or the lies that had him sacked as a Times journalist or as a spokesman by the then Tory leader, Michael Howard.
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Johnson
Journalist
Leader
Biggest
Brexit
Michael
Times
Him
Lies
Sacked
Spokesman
Worse
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I'm proud to have led the brokering of the ambitious 2030 climate package in the European Union to cut greenhouse gases by at least 40%, which puts the E.U. ahead of the global pack in terms of commitments.
Ed Davey /
European Union
Greenhouse Gases
Commitments
Gases
Greenhouse
Pack
Puts
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When I fought the Tories over climate change and won, more than trebling renewable power with a new subsidy policy combining state intervention with competitive market forces, it was world-beatingly radical.
Ed Davey /
Climate
Climate Change
Combining
Intervention
Policy
Radical
Competitive
Won
Forces
Fought
Market
Market Forces
Renewable
Subsidy
Tories
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Whenever there's a big national event that brings the country together - whether it's the Olympics, a royal wedding or the 'Bake Off' final - there are inevitably a few contrarian voices speaking out against it.
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Wedding
Olympics
Royal
Bake
Inevitably
Voices
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By leading on a strong emissions reduction target, the U.K. is persuading others on the need for member states to have the freedom and flexibility to develop their own energy mix to achieve these ambitious reductions.
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Achieve
Ambitious
Emissions
Flexibility
Persuading
Reduction
Target
Develop
Leading
Member
Mix
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For me, the most ironic aspect of the Brexit debate has been right-wing Brexiteers speaking loftily about parliamentary sovereignty, when they have never backed MPs having a fuller involvement in how our country is run.
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Aspect
Debate
Involvement
Ironic
Parliamentary
Right Wing
Sovereignty
Backed
Brexit
Me Never Country
Run
Fuller
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The union that is the United Kingdom has been extraordinarily successful. Our British family has cooperated brilliantly, working together with shared goals and values, to make a unique four-country multinational success.
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Successful
Together
United Kingdom
Working Together
Brilliantly
Working
Extraordinarily
Multinational
Union
Shared
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You don't need to be a John Maynard Keynes to understand that if Britain leaves the European market, a border will have to be put in place - and that would break U.K. obligations in a treaty lodged at the United Nations.
Ed Davey /
United Nations
Border
Leaves
Lodged
Obligations
Treaty
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Brexiteers often hark back to the blitz. Maybe they think the 'Britain standing alone' motif adds much-needed heroic purpose to a Brexit future in which Britain stands without trading partners or allies to tackle climate change.
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Alone
Future
Allies
Blitz
Britain
Climate Change
Heroic
Partners
Purpose
Standing
Standing Alone
Trading
Adds
Brexit
Often
Maybe
Tackle
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Liberal Democrats are proud to be the main U.K. political party leading the Remain campaign. Being pro-E.U. is in our DNA: internationalism, tearing down walls rather than building them, is at the heart of who we are as a party.
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Dna
Internationalism
Party
Proud
Campaign
Democrats
Leading
Liberal
Liberal Democrats
Main
Political Party
Rather
Remain
Tearing
Walls
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Alongside energy efficiency, renewables and abatement, I believe safe nuclear power, with manageable waste, can play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as long as it is cost competitive with other low carbon generation.
Ed Davey /
Carbon
Cost
Efficiency
Emissions
Energy
Energy Efficiency
Gas
Manageable
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Reducing
Safe
Waste
Power Believe I Believe
Alongside
Competitive
Generation
Greenhouse
Important Role
Low
Renewables
Role
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I am not a natural fan of Mr Tillerson's political instincts. Indeed, there maybe few things I would agree with Rex on: for example, he vouched his support for the war in Yemen, approved of Assad's regime, and has pushed for tax cuts for American big business.
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Agree
Approved
Big Business
Example
Natural
Support
Tax Cuts
Yemen
Tax
Fan
Mr
Instincts
Cuts
Few Things
For Example
Indeed
Maybe
Regime
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Britain needs a diverse energy mix - home grown renewables, new nuclear, a switch from dirty coal to cleaner gas, and, when the technology is ready, carbon capture and storage. Diversity will keep the lights on and ensure we go green at the lowest possible cost.
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Capture
Carbon
Coal
Diverse
Gas
Lowest
Storage
Cleaner
Lights
Mix
Renewables
Switch
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The homeless often lose trust in people: in the hospital doctors, who had no choice but to discharge them back on to the streets, and in the family members from whom they have become estranged. Their past use of the NHS can make it difficult to patch together a full medical history.
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Discharge
Doctors
Family Members
Homeless
Nhs
Streets
Hospital
No Choice
Patch
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Offshore oil and gas has proven to be a vital strategic resource for the United Kingdom. Not only has it contributed to Britain's energy security over decades, but it has supported hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country and contributed hundreds of billions of pounds in taxes to the economy.
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Billions
Britain
Decades
Economy
Energy Security
Gas
Offshore
Pounds
Proven
Security
Strategic
Taxes
United Kingdom
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Resource
Thousands
Vital
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When I was energy and climate change secretary I sat around a cabinet table with Gove, and he couldn't help playing to the Tory climate-sceptic audience. As education secretary, he tried to ban climate change from the geography curriculum. After an angry exchange of letters with me, he eventually backed down.
Ed Davey /
Angry
Audience
Climate Change
Curriculum
Energy
Geography
Letters
Sat
Secretary
Change Education Me
Backed
Ban
Cabinet
Exchange
Table
Tried
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We have been developing an ever closer relationship with China on climate change for many years which has led to collaboration on carbon trading, offshore wind development, on low-carbon buildings, on nuclear energy, and on carbon capture and storage - to name just some of the ways in which we're working together.
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Capture
Carbon
Climate Change
Collaboration
Nuclear Energy
Offshore
Storage
Trading
Wind
Working Together
Buildings
Closer
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If we can speed up the deployment of clean energy technologies in developing countries with investments from the Green Climate Fund, hundreds of millions of people will be able to access electricity for the first time - with all the education, health, communication and entrepreneurial opportunities electricity enables.
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Communication
Health
Access
Clean
Clean Energy
Deployment
Developing
Developing Countries
Electricity
Energy
Entrepreneurial
First Time
Fund
Green
Millions
Speed
Education Time Health
Countries
Enables
Education Health Time
Hundreds
Investments
Millions Of People
Opportunities
Technologies
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When I visited Jerusalem and the West Bank back in 2008, I was shocked by how individual Palestinians and whole Palestinian communities were treated by the Israeli government. From the illegal settlements to daily humiliations at checkpoints, the evidence of gross injustice and the human suffering it brings is indisputable.
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Evidence
Gross
Human Suffering
Illegal
Injustice
Israeli
Jerusalem
Palestinian
Shocked
Bank
Israeli Government
Palestinians
Settlements
Visited
West Bank
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From Nato to the U.N. and the E.U., the generation that lived through the first half of the 20th century knew they needed to create a new world order. An order with rules and institutions which, however imperfect, could act both as constraints on individual countries going rogue and as catalysts for co-operation for mutual benefit.
Ed Davey /
Century
Constraints
Half
Imperfect
Individual
Institutions
Mutual
Nato
Needed
New World
Order
World Order
Rules
Act
Benefit
Both
Co-Operation
Countries
Create
Generation
However
Rogue
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My experience as energy and climate change secretary - in the months I spent battling George Osborne over the budget for investment in low carbon, and in the daily attrition with Eric Pickles over onshore wind - was that many Conservatives simply regard their commitment to climate change action as something they had to say to get into power.
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Attrition
Carbon
Climate Change
Eric
Pickles
Regard
Secretary
Wind
Battling
Conservatives
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