We do not just strive for a society in which every person has the opportunity to reach their full potential (all parties lay claim to that); we want to build a society in which whatever talents people have, they are rewarded with a comfortable standard of living when they apply them.

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In an age of globalisation, investment and good jobs increasingly flow to cities and regions with distinctive strengths and specialisms. These cannot be built up from Whitehall. They require local expertise, knowledge and dedication.

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Strength Men Knowledge

Ignoring prostate cancer won't beat it.

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Won T State

Back in the 1980s parts of our country were devastated by de-industrialisation. This wave of globalisation and the first fruits of technological innovation destroyed industrial jobs or exported them to low-wage economies. The loss of work had a devastating impact.

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Work Art Age

Green growth is one vehicle through which technology, globalisation and environmental challenges can be turned from obstacles to solutions for problems related to growth, jobs and competitiveness.

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Technology Pet Men

Part of the reason young people are getting involved with gangs, leading to the use of guns and knives, is not the lack of stop and search but the individualistic, consumerist society we live in.

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Society Art Young People

I'm boring, man.

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Ring Man Boring

You cannot duck the difficult issues in the middle of an election campaign.

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You T Sue

I honestly do feel like the luckiest man alive. I have a beautiful daughter, an amazing wife and not everyone has that. My close mates always laugh at me because I say I'm blessed, but I don't know what I did to deserve it.

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Amazing Wife Ways

Excessive pay and rewards for failure are bad for shareholders, the economy and society.

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War Society Failure

The Labour perspective is often very preoccupied with either the super-rich or those who don't have work - but doesn't have nearly enough to say to those who do have work, on incomes that may not mean they get benefits or tax credits, but are not well off people.

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Work Wit Who

Brexit is not going to solve the causes of Brexit.

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Uses Use Us

Some people welcome the flexibility of a zero-hours contract. But their growth is symptomatic of a wider issue - increasing job insecurity and falling living standards in David Cameron's Britain.

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Zero Wider Wide

Sometimes it requires national impetus to deliver real change.

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Time Pet Change

When a Conservative government is presiding over unfair cuts to tax credits, chaos in the NHS and an unnecessary and ideological attack on trade union rights, it is natural that many in the Labour party should be sceptical of Tory talk on devolution - sceptical, even of government deals with Labour-led local authorities.

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Men Government Art

Some will say it isn't the government's job to manage who people meet and interact with, but there is clearly a lot it can and should do. It should offer communities much more support to manage demographic and cultural change, including investment in public services and additional housing stock in our migration hotspots.

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Men Government Change

Undoubtedly Obama's multi-ethnic heritage is part of his appeal. There is something in his background that we can all relate to and grab hold of.

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Art Age Undoubtedly

Although I had a private education at secondary level, I went to a local primary school where I mixed with kids of all backgrounds.

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Education Wit Where

Work is the way we contribute to society, part of a reciprocal social contract - the giving of our effort and our taking when in need - that holds our society together. We work, we build our society, and we share in its prosperity.

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Work Society Art

A prerequisite to the inclusive prosperity that will increase equality and reduce poverty is growth. This requires an innovative economy in which productive businesses, the state and citizens work together to create wealth and ensure that globalisation works for many more people.

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Work Equality Business

I've never bought the argument that people are apathetic about politics.

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Politics Men T

My father, when he arrived in this country found it difficult.

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We have a commitment to making sure that the U.K. remains a member of the European Union.

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My father was a rags-to-riches businessman who came over in the Sixties with no money. On my mother's side, I am the grandson of a High Court judge and celebrated intelligence officer, so it's quite an unusual combination.

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We have a really rich and diverse heritage in my family - but I sometimes felt it was a bit of a chain round my neck in the Labour party if truth be told.

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My family have shaped my politics more than anything else.

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This country needs nothing less than wholesale federalisation. The reasons are threefold: economic, democratic and cultural.

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Leaving Labour was one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do and it was not a cause of jubilation or happiness. I did it with great sadness, but you have to put the country first.

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Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.

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Why not let the main parties wither? Because I know of no better vehicle than the political party to enable those with common values to come together and reach a position on issues that can then be offered up as a choice of programmes for voters.

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I spent many hours slaving away, day and night, bleary eyed, on multi-million pound takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, and the rest. It could sound glamorous (especially when it involved overseas travel) but often it wasn't partly because, as a lawyer, you were not the one calling the shots.

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Labour has an impressive record of delivery for black Britain.

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I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

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We do not just strive for a society in which every person has the opportunity to reach their full potential (all parties lay claim to that); we want to build a society in which whatever talents people have, they are rewarded with a comfortable standard of living when they apply them.

Chuka Umunna

Having common European standards has not only boosted prosperity here and across the continent, it is undoubtedly the best way of managing the challenges posed by globalisation.

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Our differences needn't divide us, but unity takes work.

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As the world has changed through globalisation and technology, it has left many feeling left behind.

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I have a confession to make: I am a Labour parliamentary candidate but like and get on with some of the Conservative persuasion.

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Getting from A to B can be crucial for small-business owners, self-employed people and freelancers too, who often rely on trains and buses to get around, conduct business and meet clients.

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Look, politics can be tough.

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It was a Labour prime minister who appointed the first black male and female cabinet ministers.

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Whether it is clamping down on tax avoidance by multinationals, setting ambitious targets for tackling climate change, or reforming the posted workers' directive to better protect migrant workers, European countries are working together to get things done.

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Leaving the single market, making communities poorer and more alienated, is not the way to deal with public concerns about immigration, most of which comes from outside the E.U.

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Banks provide payment systems, core deposit and lending facilities that enable us to manage our day to day affairs.

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If truth be told, certainly culturally, I never felt totally comfortable in the Labour party, because I've never really been a massively tribal politician.

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My father was a black, working-class man who arrived here with no money in his pocket from Nigeria; my mum came from more of a middle-class background, whose father had prosecuted the Nazis at Nuremberg.

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I have quite a different background from a lot of people in the Labour party - I'm of mixed heritage.

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While we are clear that it is right that those who work hard, generate wealth and create jobs for our country are rewarded, where failure is rewarded or people award themselves huge pay rises that bear no relation to performance or what their companies can bear, trust is severely undermined.

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One way to promote shareholder engagement and activism is through greater accountability and transparency.

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Requiring fund managers to disclose how they vote would increase accountability and mean that pensioners and ordinary investors would more easily be able to see how those acting on their behalf vote on all issues, including remuneration.

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There are retailers successfully combining conventional and online retail, like Argos or John Lewis.

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