Barry Gardiner Quotes

The basis for securing preferential future trade terms with India begins in that recognition of essential equality. Indeed it begins in recognising that India is now an emerging global superpower whose primary interests are regional in South East Asia and who needs a deal with the U.K. less than we need one with her

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Poor decision making in government; the tragedy of short-term economic thinking; our national housing crisis: these are real 21st Century problems for our country. They are problems that can only be solved by genuinely fearless thinking about our natural environment

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The Tories' favoured trade deals post-Brexit are likely to make regional inequality worse, by focusing on the best deal for the City of London at the expense of smaller firms across the country

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An efficient economy does not perpetuate the misallocation of capital - it punishes it

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If government is so keen to let local people have a veto in stopping wind farms, why does it not allow local people to say no to fracking?

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When I was a child my mother used to pay me half a crown - 12.5 pence - to wash her car each week

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Leaving the E.U. with no trade deal is the worst possible option. It will condemn British exporters to the full range of tariffs and barriers that apply under WTO rules

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Donald Trump spoke to the experience of ordinary working people when he dubbed Nafta the 'worst trade deal ever made.'

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The pluralist society must be pragmatic. It does not say that 'God is dead.' It does not say that 'God is alive.' It says if we are to answer the question of how we can live together then we must remain agnostic on all such matters - at least so far as our civic association is structured

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A Brexit that works for Britain needs to work for small businesses and must ensure that our future trade deals don't just work for big business

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We must learn the lessons of the 2008 crash: no company should be able to become too big to fail

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The unpopularity of raising corporate or personal income tax has been a straight jacket constraining Labour's thinking on how best to invest and grow the economy

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Fear is a treacherous leader. It shrinks from the new and fails to meet the challenges of the future

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As the cost of renewables plummets, the clean energy transition is increasingly driven by the business case

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Climate change brings increasingly frequent and severe weather patterns and this means more floods

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Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should be withdrawn gradually as those distortions in the market are addressed

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