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I went along with it, and wanted to appoint a significant figure in Malcolm Fraser. I didn't have high hopes that they'd be able…

— Bob Hawke

Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".

— Eddie Mair

The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia. Notwithstanding a controversial prime ministership, in later years he harboured one abiding and…

— Paul Keating

The resignation of the British home secretary, Amber Rudd, over the Windrush scandal marks an important moment for independent, investigative journalism, demonstrating how it…

— Katharine Viner

When Tony Abbott was prime minister, I could get straight answers. I didn't always like what he had to say, but he stuck to…

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

Victoria Woodcock ran Vote Leave - she was a truly awesome project manager and without her Cameron would certainly have won.

— Dominic Cummings

When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any…

— Jimmy Reid

Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better…

— Michael Foot

Cameron's resignation really was the death knell of the Conservative Party as we knew it because that's something a proper Conservative politician cannot do:…

— Roger Scruton

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

— Brian Clough

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

— Maureen Forrester

Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time trying to…

— Alastair Campbell