David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.
I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows. - Gordon Brown
I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.
- Gordon Brown
I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately. - Gordon Brown
I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately.
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future. - Gordon Brown
To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create … - Gordon Brown
Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create …
Britain does not want a return to boom and bust. - Gordon Brown
Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.
When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger - Gordon Brown
When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger
There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating… - Gordon Brown
There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating…
We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech. - Gordon Brown
We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. Bu… - Gordon Brown
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. Bu…
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