Douglas Alexander

I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party. ”

We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want. ”

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion. ”

If Nick Clegg hadn't been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn't have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn't have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn't have had the mistakes we've seen in economic policy. ”

What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication. ”

Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit. ”

David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most. ”

It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences. ”

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people. ”

Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting to defend Europe against attacks from the Eurosceptic right, it would be fatal to retreat into the same arguments and begin the battle anew. ”