Neil Kinnock
Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock PCis a British Labour Party politician. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992, making him the longest-serving Leader of the Opposition in British political history...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 March 1942
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Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
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I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.
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I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.
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We must not look for some kind of Messiah.
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You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
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In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
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I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.
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Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
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I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.
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People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.
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I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.
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My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
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If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.
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There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.