Kenneth Clarke
Kenneth Clarke
Kenneth Harry Clarke CH QC, often known as Ken Clarke, is a British Conservative politician who has represented Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire as a Member of Parliament since 1970...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 July 1940
blair government politics standing
The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.
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I shan't lose my paunch. I like my relaxed lifestyle. I like food. Because of my relaxed lifestyle I haven't suffered from the stress my colleagues do. I seem able to outlast them all!
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The British government and the prime minister personally must use every ounce of influence they have in Washington to try to prevent that from happening,
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The disastrous decision to invade Iraq has made Britain a more dangerous place,
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They suddenly thought they had someone with the X-factor.
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I have never read it. You should not waste your time.
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The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative
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I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.
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A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last Parliament.
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Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
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With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour of a ban in my constituency, but I would not regard that as conclusive, and I hope that we never would. If we start having opinion polls about all the unpleasant and distasteful habits and customs of some members of society, and suggesting that their findings should be made part of the criminal law, foxhunting would come way down the list, and quite a lot of strange enactments would have to go through the House.
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understandable exasperation growing on the part of the tobacco industry, which is manufacturing a lawful product...
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If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.
My sense is that the majority of Conservatives share my reservations about how we got into Iraq.