"In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world."
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"Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.“
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"For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in."
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"Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre."
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"Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times."
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"At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship."
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"What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power."
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
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