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Popularity: -1 Vote:	And I think on that basis, as long as we have now decommissioning of arms following by the IRA, we will have formed an unbreakable peace.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	But for me liberalisation is not an end in itself. It is a means for creating a better and more just society and improving people's lives.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Europe feels under pressure, not sure if it should be a bulwark against globalization or a means of embracing it.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Every generation or so in Britain, there needs to be an opportunity to re-state or re-cement our commitment to the European Union.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	I don't think it is true - as some commentators suggest - that France is going through an identity crisis, but there is an element of that.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I hope people will say love him or loathe he is a strong guy and we need a person to bat for a strong Britain in Europe.
Popularity: -2 Vote:	I suggest the BBC concentrates on the issues and helps the public to understand the policies and the choices that are at stake in the election rather than engages in the process politics, the trivialisation of the campaign.
Popularity: -2 Vote:	I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I think we do have peace at hand.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I'm a fighter, not a quitter.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	If I could give some advice to the White House, it would be that President Bush should be his own ambassador more.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	The European elite has got to wake up and realize it has contributed to this malaise by acting in isolation and in a distant way.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	The principles that they've agreed is that decommissioning is an essential part of the peace process, that it should be supervised by the DeShastalaine commission.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	We have to mend our ways and remember we have a public to whom we are accountable and to whom we have to explain and justify ourselves.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	We should find new ways to move forward by reducing the scope for conflict between our regulatory approaches and by forging closer cooperation.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	You know, the reason why the Good Friday agreement took so long to be implemented, what the barrier in the road that was holding up progress was the party's inability to agree what should come first: The IRA giving up some of their arms or the devolved government and other institutions being set up.

Biography

The Right Honourable Peter Benjamin Mandelson (born 21 October 1953) is a British Labour politician, and former Member of Parliament for Hartlepool, who is currently European Commissioner for Trade. He is widely regarded as one of the key architects of the repositioning of the Labour Party and its rebranding as New Labour. He was twice forced to resign from being a Cabinet minister in the Blair Government.

Early life

Mandelson was born in London in 1953. He is the grandson of Herbert Morrison, the London County Council leader and Labour cabinet minister. In his youth, he briefly rebelled against his family's Labour tradition and in 1971 left the Labour Party Young Socialists, LPYS, to become a member of the Young Communist League then the youth wing of the Communist Party of Great Britain. This move was partly a result of disagreements with the Trotskyist Militant Tendency that had just won a majority in the LPYS nationally. He studied politics, philosophy and economics at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and after returning to the Labour party, became director of the British Youth Council in the late 1970s. He was elected to Lambeth Borough Council in September 1979, but retired in 1982, disillusioned with the state of Labour politics.

He worked as a television producer with London Weekend Television alongside John Birt before his appointment as the Labour Party's Director of Communications in 1985. In this role he was one of the first people in Britain to whom the term "spin doctor" was applied; during this period he acquired the nickname The Prince of Darkness (originally coined in the satirical magazine Private Eye). In 1986 he ran the campaign at the Fulham by-election that saw Labour defeat the SDP. He managed Labour's widely admired but electorally unsuccessful 1987 general election campaign. During this campaign the News of the World published a story about his private life based on revelations from a former lover.

He left the job in 1990, when he was selected as Labour candidate for the safe Labour seat of Hartlepool. He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1992 general election. Although many commentators regarded the industrial northern town of Hartlepool as an unlikely place for the metropolitan and high-living Mandelson to represent, he came to enjoy his time there and built up a rapport with the town.

A frequently told urban legend in Labour Party circles has it that Mandelson, visiting a Fish and Chip shop in his new constituency, saw the mushy peas and asked the proprietor about "the Guacamole dip". The story has been traced to an American intern at the Knowsley North by-election in 1986; Neil Kinnock has admitted to being one of those who applied the story to Mandelson.

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