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Gordon Brown, Shadow Chancellor, in an interview in the 'Times'
I will be cleaning the wards, cleaning the toilets and washing floors. I've never done anything like that in my life before.
The Duchess of Kent, who has joined Cardinal Basil Hume for a week as a helper to pilgrims in Lourdes
If only Chancellor Kenneth Clarke dressed more smartly, he would be a natural candidate for New Labour's first cabinet.
Roy Hattersley, Labour's former deputy leader
What people are angry about in Britain is being conned. What people are angry about are all the promises so coolly made and so cynically broken. What people are angry about is being betrayed.
Paddy Ashdown Liberal Democrat leader
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