You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing thin…

- Patricia Hewitt

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on th…

- Patricia Hewitt

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consig…

- Patricia Hewitt

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

- Patricia Hewitt

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to wi…

- Patricia Hewitt

Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they wi…

- Patricia Hewitt

But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever proble…

- Patricia Hewitt

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour wi…

- Patricia Hewitt

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerpri…

- Patricia Hewitt