Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

International examples prove that high-speed rail pays for itself.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I have to confess, street politics are not my usual style.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I don't answer deeply hypothetical questions.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Brexit is not a viable path for Britain.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

You should be completely honest and open in public about who you are.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Resistance to Brexit is the logic of everything Labour stands for.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I am an electoral reformer and an ex-Lib Dem.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Good government has essentially broken down in the face of Brexit.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The people should make the final decision on Brexit when they see the government's Brexit deal.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Night buses serve not only the leisure economy- pubs, bars, clubs, theatres and concerts- but also hundreds of thousands of night workers.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

All partners in the workplaces have a key role to play in training a workforce fit for the future.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

When I was a minister I only went on about things I was going to make happen. I very rarely talked about…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The partial exception to our London-centric state institutions is the monarchy, which has always had peripatetic tendencies.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

By neglecting education, the 1974 Labour government failed as surely as on the picket lines of Grunwick.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

In the hands of great school leaders, Teach First can make a spectacular difference.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

We have moral duties to the dispossessed - and should be taking our fair share of Syrian refugees, particularly parentless children.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Britain's railways don't need to be wholly nationalised and they don't need to be operated solely by private companies. Both of these…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Our European neighbours in France have invested in their infrastructure early and are now reaping the rewards later. This is because wherever…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

What we need is fundamental reform to address the deep social and economic problems that are gripping people and communities nationwide, particularly…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Brexit is not, thankfully, a question of war. But, like Iraq, Brexit is an act of unprovoked self-harm and a massive strategic…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Nothing is clear cut in the debate surrounding high-speed rail, but from its successes elsewhere we can be confident that it pays…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Apprenticeships must be more than a re-branding of in-work training if they are going to have a substantive impact on the future…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The individuals who intervened in my life, transformed it, didn't do so in a vacuum. One was a manager of a children's…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Efficiency, connectivity and productivity are all economic buzzwords that people have said high-speed rail will deliver. But at the heart of it…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Clement Attlee, the man who led us out of the rubble of the Second World War and into a more modern, egalitarian…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

By managing the speed of traffic and opening the hard shoulder as a new running lane in times of congestion, the M42…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I thought I'd left politics when Labour lost the 2010 election and I went off and ran a thinktank for two years…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Parents who've not had an education themselves find it hard to explain to their children what a decent education involves, and I…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I joined the SDP as a founder member a few days after my 18th birthday in 1981. I was a councillor, activist…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Academies place a high premium on local community engagement.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Theresa May is singularly unsuited for high office and lacks political talent.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I have three children. A son, a daughter, and HS2.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

In politics, exhaustion and attrition need to be overcome, not indulged.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The SDP's founder, Roy Jenkins, was my hero and later mentor.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

We shouldn't leave the E.U. until we have trade protection at least as good.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Theresa May has much to answer for, but it is not her fault that she couldn't square the circle of the Brexiteers'…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Brexit has always been an impossible project, except at the price of massive self-harm.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

England is so dominant within the U.K. that separate English and U.K. parliaments and governments are a recipe for weakness and instability.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis