Occupation: British Politician Birth: July 15, 1965
My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is ver….
Everything about my politics has been about the future..
I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics..
We are a European nation - must stay one..
The science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better..
You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secon….
Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosp….
I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker..
The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat, to human lif….
And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed ev….
The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 mill….
The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought..
Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make you….
In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions..
Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country,….
Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of polic….
Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need ….
We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about two-thirds our ecological foo….
One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists….
We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept..
John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!.