Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

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

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

— 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

Teach First is uniquely placed to help universities broaden the social background of their student intake.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

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

— 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

The motorway network helps bind Britain together. It remains an extraordinary achievement, making a huge contribution to our economy and our way…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

It is clear to me that when London has expanded successfully in the past, there has always been a plan.

— 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

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

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

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

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

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

Until the late 1950s Britain's leaders were slow to appreciate the social and economic value of motorways. The first stretch of German…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The Conservatives have been unusually badly led by David Cameron and Theresa May.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The only way Brexit might have worked without an economic collapse is the Norway model of close integration with the structure of…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

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

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I was warned by the private sector that we would fail and would fail badly. 'The state can't run a railway,' I…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Austerity and Brexit are two sides of the same coin, like the Brexit party and the Tories.

— 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

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

Teachers need to have the capacity to spot those that are struggling early on and intervene.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

School standards need to rise a lot further if the full potential of all our young people, particularly those from poorer backgrounds,…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The reason why I'm so passionate about turning around failing schools is that children who have the misfortune to go to unsucccessful…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis