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John Prescott

"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."

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"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."

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Amber Hurdle

"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."

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"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."

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"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."

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"In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds."

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Amber Hurdle

"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."

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Amber Hurdle

"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."

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Amber Hurdle

"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."

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Amber Hurdle

"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."

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Amber Hurdle

"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."

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"That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer."
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"The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe."
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"Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites."
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"I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly."
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"I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are."
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"It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration."
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"Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done."
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"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."
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