13,787 source-backed politics facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 130 of 138.
“the big decisions are taken by meetings of the 12 countries that are in the euro”
“in the first week of July”
“the Danish referendum on 28 September”
“speech planned for 6 October”
“I spent 13 years growing up.”
“Eighteen months to three years later, they got around to processing your application”
“the first council house to be built in Britain after the 1945 Labour victory”
“The year we took up occupancy, however, was 1985”
“We had a mere six months to wait”
“two indoor toilets – one upstairs and one downstairs”
“blocks out half the house”
“15 years ago, however, a 12-year-old could walk out”
“Fifteen years ago, Leicester was where Satan would go to find a wife”
“the hip‑hop craze finally reached Leicester in 1984”
“In the 1970s and 1980s, Leicester suffered the same decline”
“After he was killed on an Eltham street on the night of 22 April 1993”
“For four years, the Lawrence case was repeatedly brought to the attention of the House of Commons, including the tabling of a total of 20 parliamentary questions and an early day motion”
“The Daily Mail named the five suspects, under the headline: “Murderers””
“With a parliamentary majority of 179, this government has never been defeated on the floor of the Commons”
“the decisions of government and public authorities are overturned in the courts twice a day”
“The new Human Rights Act will add to the list of legal challenges when it comes into force on 2 October”
“produced a list eight pages long”
“some 80,000 people with cancer are denied access to the latest drugs by their health authority”
“By Christmas 2000, I will deliver headline unemployment below one million for the first time in a quarter of a century.”
“I will use taxes and benefits to redistribute billions of pounds to families who remain out of work and to those in low-paid jobs.”
“I will ensure that benefits cover the real cost of raising a child, rather than falling 33 per cent short as at present.”
“For a family with a full-time worker, I will guarantee a minimum income of more than £10,000 a year, and pay 70 per cent of their childcare costs.”
“the government has lifted more than a million children out of poverty.”
“Changes in direct taxes and benefits between 1997 and 2000 added an average of 7 per cent in real terms to the incomes of the poorest 10 per cent of households and only 0.7 per cent to the richest tenth.”
“the three increases imposed by Labour raised the cost of living for a car-owner in the poorest tenth of the population by a total of about 1 per cent.”
“only a minority of the general population, 36 per cent, think that a car is something that everybody needs.”
“up from 22 per cent who thought so in 1983, since when the number who say they cannot afford to buy a car has fallen from 22 per cent to 11 per cent.”
“24 per cent now lack at least three items considered necessary by the majority of the population, compared to 14 per cent in 1983.”
“In June, July and August 1992, the three months before Black Wednesday, average support for the three main parties was: Labour 42 per cent, Conservative 39 per cent, Lib Dems 15 per cent.”
“In the same three months a year later, as Blair grew disillusioned with Smith’s leadership, the figures were: Labour 44 per cent, Conservative 24 per cent, Lib Dems 26 per cent.”
“Now look at the same summer months two years later. It is 1995. Blair has been Labour leader for a year. He has proclaimed the case for “new Labour” and persuaded his party to drop Clause Four. Labour’s support is up 13 points to 57 per ce…”
“In 1964, when Harold Wilson led the party to its first election victory for 14 years, only 29 per cent of the electorate belonged to the middle and professional social classes – the ABC1s; 71 per cent were working class, C2DE voters.”
“The Tories swamped Labour among ABC1 voters by 66 per cent to 19 per cent.”
“Wilson’s victory relied on Labour’s domination of the C2DE vote, where the party beat the Tories by 57 per cent to 32 per cent.”
“In 1997, Blair repeated Wilson’s achievement of beating the Tories by almost two to one among C2DE voters”
“and far exceeded anything Wilson ever managed, by reducing the Tories’ advantage among the richest, AB voters to just ten points”
“and achieving parity among C1 voters.”
“According to MORI’s surveys from the first half of this year, Labour has slightly increased its support among C2DE voters, and achieved further sizeable swings in its favour among the middle classes.”
“Labour has achieved a sustained lead among AB voters for the first time in its history”
“and routinely holds a double-digit lead among C1s.”
“In his first Budget, he put our money where his mouth was by raising, from 5 to 6 per cent above the rate of inflation, the fuel duty escalator imposed by the previous government.”
“Michael Howard, the then secretary of state for the environment, first heard of the fuel duty escalator, which the then chancellor Norman Lamont was about to introduce, when he was briefed on the next day’s Budget announcement prior to boa…”
“Over the past six months, as chair of the Co-operative Commission, I have been hearing evidence from organisations and individuals with a wide range of views on the direction that the movement should take.”
“Almost 50 years ago, Hugh Gaitskell chaired the first Co-operative Commission.”
“A round-table debate on the future of the co-operative movement will be held on 10 October and the discussion published in a special New Statesman supplement in our issue dated 23 October.”
“new Labour’s failure, despite £400m of Tory and Labour government investment in the region.”
“using safe seats within a 30-mile radius of here”
“Nobody thinks he should have resigned. “I was amazed when he did,” says Ray Waller, a former steelworker and leader of the town’s Labour group. “And so were most people in Hartlepool.” So far, in classical new Labour style, Mandelson’s nim…”
“The 20th century was dominated by conflict between the left and the right.”
“which will be published in November.”
“just three: trade; education and information technology; and the reform of the international financial institutions”
“last year’s World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle”
“of the 1980s and early 1990s”
“this month”
“Fifty years ago”
“Two new books claimed to show the mutual loathing at the heart of new Labour”
“he once used to drink up to 14 pints of beer each day”
“they hope for a magic number of 265 seats, or more, in England”
“opposition from 12 or 13 other governments”
“once or twice under Margaret Thatcher”
“spending of a single penny more”
“at the start of this month”
“party conference next month”
“spring of 2000”
“four allegedly “quality” broadsheets, the Press and Journal, Courier, Herald and Scotsman, sell a combined total of 380,000 copies a day”
“60 per cent of the stories would routinely be UK and international”
“30 minutes of exclusively Scottish news from Glasgow”
“half an hour of increasingly English news from London, followed by 30 minutes of exclusively Scottish news from Glasgow”
“two totally incompatible programmes”
“two programmes in order to get half a service”
“four weeks after the event”
“The 1996 welfare legislation, which ended nearly all federal aid programmes and pushed welfare down to the states”
“A decade and a half after Margaret Thatcher said there was no such thing”
“It is thus absurd for the Sunday Times to quote “a source close to” the Trade Secretary, Stephen Byers, as saying that “if the hard core of digital refuseniks is between 5 per cent and 10 per cent of all households, then the government wil…”
“The institute was founded by David Green who, for 15 years, worked for one of the 1970s path-breakers, the Institute for Economic Affairs. Two years ago, the IEA gave him enough funding to set up on his own.”
“He thinks that “the renewal of civil society was simply not on the agenda of the Thatcher governments of the 1980s””
“Gordon Brown, speaking to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations in February, promised them tax breaks and assistance to renew themselves, and said that “individual initiative was stifled” in the process of building up the welfar…”
“John Reid, the Secretary of State for Scotland, spoke in May of a “new civic society” that “sees people not as inherently selfish, but as sociable and co-operative”.”
“Successive postwar governments, he said, had allowed “the state to increasingly become a replacement for communities . . . it was a wrong turn. A much larger role must be given to local communities and their institutions.””
“Close to nine out of ten citizens give the changes the thumbs up.”
“Fabius has been in office not six months and here he is posting a new direction for France”
“With elections due in 18 months for both parliament and presidential office (the job Jospin next seeks)”
“Now 54, he had until recently served as president of the National Assembly”
“Having brought in the 35-hour week, she wears the crown of queen of the left”
“owing to dodgy personal finances) of his brilliant colleague Dominique Strauss-Kahn”
“because of the lack of democratic feedback, governments have not understood that there are considerable assets which 90 per cent of the public own, but which need to be formalised with new legal frameworks.”
“a genuinely radical thinker”
“Chris Smith, the Secretary of State for Culture, has promised that switch-off will not occur until 95 per cent of us have digital access.”
“The Warnock report on in vitro fertilisation back in 1984 approved the creation of embryos specifically for the purposes of research.”
“up to a specified time limit of 14 days.”
“Between 1991 and 1998, 763,509 human embryos were created under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Of these, 237,603 were not used for any purpose and were destroyed; 48,444 were given for use in research; 118 were created i…”
“In the 25 years since abuse survivors first began to talk of their experiences in numbers, ministers have ignored a multitude of opportunities”
“They confessed to a staggering 243,000 crimes.”
“Convictions remain rare – fewer than 10 per cent of prosecutions.”
“One child in three receives no support or preparation for court.”
