Charles Clarke
Charles Clarke
Charles Rodway Clarkeis a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliamentfor Norwich South from 1997 until 2010, and served as Home Secretary from December 2004 until May 2006...
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Yes is the answer to that question. I've enjoyed being in government... if it would be useful for me to serve I would like to do that. [saying he would like to work for Gordon Brown despite his previous opinions of him!]
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But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.
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Few nations match our rich resource of literature.
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One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.
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We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence
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Proscription is an important power, and not one to be used lightly, ... The list of proscribed organizations is kept under constant review and after careful consideration of all the relevant factors I am satisfied that these groups should now be added to it.
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Our equipment we thought was fine. But when you get out there and start fighting it for 20 or 30 hours straight, equipment starts failing. And so we need a lot of repair on some of these older trucks.
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Following months of diplomatic work we now have good reason to believe that we can get the necessary assurances from the countries to which we will return the deportees so that they will not be subject to torture or ill-treatment, ... powers to deport individuals and detain them pending deportation.
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There was a determination from all colleagues around the table ... to reach agreement,
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Now, at the end, my judgement turned out to be incorrect and we lost the vote.
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They were documenting something that two, three, four generations from now they were going to tell about in pride.
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The faces of the women and children in far-away Spain, widows and orphans of this July third rose before me so vividly that I had to draw comfort from the thought that a decisive victory is... more merciful than a prolonged struggle.
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I regret that on the question of the level of the bar at which prosecutions can be brought ... that the government lost tonight.
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If the judges don't understand that message and don't take decisions which reflect where the people of the continent want to be, then the conclusion will be that politicians ... will be saying we have got to have a change in this regime.