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"Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that."
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"I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country."
"It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that."
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"The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom."
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"Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build."
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