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Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters.

I do think our challenge is to balance credibility and a clear message about how we would reduce the deficit with boldness about the choices that we put before the public.

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What people want is a sense of a better future to come.

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The Network Generation are secure in, and proud of, their Scottishness. Unlike my generation that grew up in the '80s, they don't see our sense of identity as under threat.

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In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

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The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

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A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

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The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding.

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The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.

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Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.

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As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.

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Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

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Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.

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Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

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Having disrupted business practices, social interactions and political campaigns, 2011 will be seen as the year that the rise of the Internet first disrupted foreign relations.

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The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow... on how elections are won in the 21st century.

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David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most.

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It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead. It is therefore vital that the legal frameworks governing their use are robust and internationally recognised.

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Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

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Our responsibility is to protect people and help them into work.

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Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad.

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Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.

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One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century.

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We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

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This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the world is at their fingertips via their smart phone. They find the idea of watching TV programmes at a time to suit the broadcaster quaint and old-fashioned.

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In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a £10 trillion E.U., not a £1.5 trillion Britain.

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Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters.

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For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

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A self-evidently confident politician, Cameron still suffers from a curious hollowness. Ten years after he became Conservative leader, many people still question what he actually stands for or believes in.

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I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

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Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government. But we need to set ourselves a higher standard than a party offering anger like UKIP.

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My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.

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I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.

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Newspapers can make their own judgment in terms of who they support in a general election. Our responsibility is to make a considered judgment about where the national interest lies.

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My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.

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When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.

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I'm at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it's important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril.

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