I'm clear that new schools should only go in areas where there is a need for places. I'm equally clear that we… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Good government has essentially broken down in the face of Brexit. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm prepared to argue with some of my Labour colleagues about doing what it takes to see that every school has the… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
By neglecting education, the 1974 Labour government failed as surely as on the picket lines of Grunwick. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Systematic social and environmental deregulation, and the economics of austerity while enriching the rich, will be the markers of Farage/Tory politics after… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
For decades, British governments - including the Blair-Brown government in which I was an education minister - have done a good job… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Labour should have fought with every sinew in 2010 to retain power. To give up power voluntarily because you are tired of… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Opening up closed markets to competition and protecting consumers from monopoly-style profits is the essence of pro-business politics on the modernising right… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Despite my deep misgivings about austerity and the harm it would do, I agreed to chair the national infrastructure commission under a… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Global warming - utterly disinterested in our political paralysis - worsens at a terrifying pace. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I have to confess, street politics are not my usual style. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
In politics, exhaustion and attrition need to be overcome, not indulged. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I'm clear that new schools should only go in areas where there is a need for places. I'm equally clear that we need those… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Brexit has always been an impossible project, except at the price of massive self-harm. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Brexit is not, thankfully, a question of war. But, like Iraq, Brexit is an act of unprovoked self-harm and a massive strategic mistake that… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Teach First is uniquely placed to help universities broaden the social background of their student intake. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Good government has essentially broken down in the face of Brexit. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
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 myopias harm… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
The motorway network helps bind Britain together. It remains an extraordinary achievement, making a huge contribution to our economy and our way of life. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
It is clear to me that when London has expanded successfully in the past, there has always been a plan. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I thought I'd left politics when Labour lost the 2010 election and I went off and ran a thinktank for two years and founded… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
The partial exception to our London-centric state institutions is the monarchy, which has always had peripatetic tendencies. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I'm prepared to argue with some of my Labour colleagues about doing what it takes to see that every school has the governance needed… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
By managing the speed of traffic and opening the hard shoulder as a new running lane in times of congestion, the M42 pilot showed… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
