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“The plotters forgot the old adage that those who seek to kill a king had better return with a body.”

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Book:Out

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“If there is a lesson in this book, it is not that some ideologies are right and that others are wrong, but that success belongs to leaders who build effective teams to pursue clearly defined goals that they can not only explain to the public but also persuade them to support.”

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Book:Out

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“Brexit deals tended to be founded on the kind of linguistic circumlocutions and fudge that made Sir Humphrey Appleby Britain’s favourite fictional mandarin.”

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“In the Conservative Party, if you constantly feed the crocodiles then they come for you.”

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Book:No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris

Source: No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris

“Another official added, ‘You just can’t run an international negotiation on the basis of changing your mind every five minutes.”

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Book:No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris

Source: No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris

“In the long history of Brexit there were few more surreal evenings than 13 March 2019.”

Book:No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris

Source: No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris

“It is my considered opinion, that for Britain and Europe, and for liberal democracy across the entire world as a whole, Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Britain’s consequent unqualified dependence on the United States in an era when the US is heading straight down the road to institutional racism and neo-fascism, is an unmitigated clusterfuck bar none.”

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Book:Agent Running in the Field

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“When the clowns of British politics - arch-Brexiteer cartoon characters 'Boorish Johnson' and 'JackOff Grease-Smug' advocate ad infinitum that Britain should leave the EU in order to be free to sign her own trade deals; they seem to have overlooked the towering elephant in the room, namely the current occupant of the White House (another clown) - who appears hell-bent on destabilising world trade via crude protectionist policies. Both Tories, despite receiving the best British education money can buy, would do well to revisit their post war history books and be reminded of one of the key objectives of the European Project and in due course the European Union - specifically to promote peace and prosperity amongst previously warring neighbours by forming a unified trading bloc which in time, due to its effective size, also acted as a useful counterweight to US hegemony. Go find another circus for your buffoonery and leave the deadly serious business of politics to principled individuals with the true national interest at heart !”

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Book:Lines & Lenses

Source: Lines & Lenses

“The UK needs a post Brexit US trade deal like a hole in the head. Given America's out-of-control opioid crisis, fuelled by prescription drug addiction, along with an obesity epidemic like the world has never seen, why on earth would the UK want to open its doors to US healthcare companies ? So that they can wreak untold havoc and destroy our National Health Service ? No thanks !”

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Book:Lines & Lenses

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“Once Burns had admitted frankly that the most difficult thing he had to learn at Oxford was the English. What was it that David had said last summer? 'We are becoming a nation of professional eccentrics. Foreigners provide us with a stage, and we enjoy our little appearances all the more because we convince everyone, including ourselves, that we don't even notice the audience.”

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Book:Friends and Lovers

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