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Britain is obsessed with political correctness. -- Marcus Brigstocke
It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics. -- Alexander Lebedev
I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics. -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America. -- Dan Aykroyd
It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious. -- Ian Hislop
Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. -- Ken Livingstone
I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics. -- David Miliband
British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target. -- Rory Bremner
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. -- Stephen Bayley
The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it. -- Kenneth Clarke
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. -- Benjamin Disraeli
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. -- Harold Pinter
Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels. -- Charles Kennedy
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite. -- Jonathan Raban
I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics. -- Jane Goodall
I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics. -- Chris Patten
I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament. -- David Blunkett
The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president. -- Mark Helprin
The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin. -- Steven Morrissey
I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in. -- Anna Soubry
British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so. -- William Randolph Hearst
He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook] -- John Prescott
I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles. -- David Brooks
The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics -- Clare Short
The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country. -- Michael Gove
If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth. -- Cyril Smith
That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today. -- Jonathan Sacks
I think this is what we must not lose sight of, present a confident, positive and optimistic platform for our country's future in which this Party appeals to the centre ground of British politics. -- Nicky Morgan
It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination. -- Maurice Saatchi

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