Liam Fox Quotes

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.

We have an extreme rightwing government in Britain, although it's called the Labour government. That's confused a lot of people, but it's confusing them less and less.

The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies - and I rather doubt that they would - would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

A majority of all defectors who voted Labour in 2010 but for a different party in 2015 said Ed Miliband had helped push them to another party. For those switching to the Tories, the second biggest reason was the fear that a Labour government would spend and borrow too much.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.

Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.

I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.

Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories.

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

When I am back in old Blighty, I am surrounded by the old and familiar concerns: New Labour, Europe, the Middle East and the rest. If you live in Britain, you will know what I mean - except you won't, because you will take it for granted that this is what the world is all about.

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim to the top

I get cross about 13 years of Labour government that brought the country to the state it did.

I like Tony Blair.

I ultimately joined the Labour Party and became an MP because the country and my constituents deserve a Labour government.

I remember being told after the 1992 general election that Labour could never win a majority in Britain ever again.

I just can't stand Tony Blair.

The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.