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The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do. Aneurin Bevan

You Man Election Will Every Tories Must Got Programme

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death. Alistair Darling

Life Death Back Tories Would Economy Global Global Economy Left Choke

When I started knocking on Highland doors in May 1983, two things struck me more than any other. First was the sheer depth of hostility towards the Tories in general. Second was the particular hostility towards Margaret Thatcher and her local ministerial spear-carrier, energy minister and incumbent MP of 13 years' standing, Hamish Gray. Charles Kennedy

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Do you defend free markets, or do you reform them? It's the same issue that Labour had in the mid-Seventies, and it's the same issue the Tories had after 1945. How do you interact with this new ideological term? Ed Miliband

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During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake. Geoff Hoon

Mistake Tories Determined Economic Investment Make Am Infrastructure Last

The best way of realising our high ideals is to show that we have an alternative in government that is credible, that is radical, and is electable - is neither a pale imitation of what the Tories offer nor is it the route to being a party of permanent protest rather than a party of government. Gordon Brown

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I don't agree with the Tories on most things. Johann Lamont

Tories Most Agree Things

You don't win elections by telling people what you're against. We're very good at listing things we don't much like about what the Tories are doing. But you win elections by telling them what you're for, what you're going to change, what's going to be better. Keir Starmer

Good You Change People Win Better Tories Telling About Like Doing Very Going Listing Against Them Much Elections Things

As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job. Lucy Powell

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The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border. Lucy Powell

Unable Tories Border Impact Seem Make North Any

There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the whopping majority. There was the relief that the Tories were finally gone. There was the grand hyperbole. Martin Jacques

Time Ride Long Long Time Gone Finally Tories Relief Easy About Something Blair Hyperbole Had New Majority Always Were Been Than Labour Grand Less Wholesome

Most Asians I know still don't trust the Tories on race - and they have good reason not to. Mehdi Hasan

Good Trust Tories Good Reason Know Most Still Race Asians Reason

In the 1990s, the Lib Dems won a string of byelections at the expense of struggling Conservative governments. Christchurch, Ribble Valley and Eastbourne went straight back to the Tories at the next general election, but the Lib Dems held their later byelection gains - Eastleigh, Newbury and Romsey - in at least two subsequent general elections. Michael Ashcroft

Conservatives like to talk about 'the strivers' who share what they like to think of as Conservative values. But as I found in my Blue Collar Tories research in 2012, such people no longer see the party as their natural ally. Michael Ashcroft

A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools. Michael Gove

Together Opportunity Liberal Liberal Democrats Tories More Only Environmentally Schools Sort Democrats Reform Golden Sensitive Create Means Coalition Planning Homes

I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less about anything the Tories have done and more about the failures of Labour to set out, in any kind of coherent sense, what it's for anymore. Nicola Sturgeon

I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear. Nicola Sturgeon

Think Tories Dear Doing Intent Hold Things Damage

I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills. Peter Mandelson

Fear Will Tories Because Understand His Campaigning Campbell Skills Why

Right-wing in Holland is to the Left of the Tories in England. Pim Fortuyn

Right-Wing Tories Left Holland England

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories. Ron Chernow

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I've met Theresa May, and I think she's a good person. I'm not someone who goes, 'Ooooh, boooo, the Tories,' or 'Ooooh, boo' anyone, actually. You sit down and have a sensible conversation, and she is really, really capable of having a sensible conversation. Sandi Toksvig

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith. Terry Eagleton

Politics Faith Matter Church Too Tories High Seems Anglican Rather Clearly Always Than Pat Suspect Predictable Conversion Agnostic

Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further. Frances O'Grady

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