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...point that they wanted to make when the four of us were in the room in Norman Shaw, which is a wing of parliament near the River Thames, they wanted to impress upon us that unlike Gordon Brown and Tony Blair...
...If I think of chancellors — Willy Brandt — Ostpolitik; Konrad Adenauer — Westbindung [anchoring Germany in the western alliance]; Kohl — reunification; what will your legacy be?...
...The first time this happened was when Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt were chancellors in the 70s. And the Greens formed out as a sort of rebellion against the Social Democrats....
...“I saw Angela Eagle, when David Cameron was talking about the economy, just doing this at him the whole time [waggles her little finger] — little willy. So it’s not just men that bully, it’s women too....
...The one-time consultant at Accenture, who worked in the Downing Street delivery unit for Tony Blair, argued that it would have more impact than a rival idea of freezing rail fares....
...The next day there was a ball and I remember dancing with Willy Brandt. Afterwards one of the Pan Am crew said, “You know who you were dancing with? He’s going to be the next mayor of Berlin.”...
...His view was that Britain’s military linkage with the US was so fundamental to our foreign policy that we must fight willy-nilly....
...“The delegation of power to quangos is not a bad thing as such but not when they are allowed to grow willy nilly, some of them spawning new bodies of their own,” he tells me....
...Are British citizens henceforth to presume that any personal data entrusted to the government can be given, willy-nilly, to commercial enterprises?...
...Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, wasted little time on coming to power in 1997 to apologise for British inaction during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s....
...Some critics viewed the play as an allegory of the Blair/Brown relationship. I would not take those comparisons too far, either....
...Unlike Willy Brandt or Tony Blair, he did not oblige his party to reinvent itself. He knew little of Europe....
...Having done so, Willy Brandt was able to lead it to victory (with the FDP) in 1969....
...He even appeared to be a natural leader of Europe's left, like Willy Brandt of Germany or Felipe González of Spain before him. It did not happen....
...Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik defused the looming threat of Sovietism....
...The initiative has been compared with the Brandt Commission on north-south relations, chaired by former German chancellor Willy Brandt, which produced two acclaimed reports in the early 1980s....
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