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We could live in a world which is airy-fairy, libertarian, where everybody does precisely what they like and we believe the best of everybody and then they destroy us.

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Let me say this very slowly indeed. Watch my lips: no selection by examination or interview under a Labour government.

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I was parodying George Bush…Watch my lips was a joke. If I were doing it again I would say 'no more selection'.

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Old Labour is the idea that you did things to people, New Labour is about enabling people to do things for themselves.

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I don't use or recognize the term 'bog standard' but what I do recognize is the critical importance of honesty about what some children, in some schools, have had to put up with over the years.

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