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I think that: In these times, caution is error; to hesitate is to lose; yet many of these decisions are acutely, finely balanced.
Because: Basic values, attitudes to the positive role of government, social objectives - these still do divide along familiar party lines.But on policy the cross-dressing is rampant and is a feature of modern politics that will stay. The era of tribal political leadership is over.Much of the opposition came from those normally to the right of me who thought it a breach of our traditional British civil liberties.
I am attacked from the left for introducing market mechanisms into the NHS. But for me it is an issue of equality. Patient choice should not be restricted only to those who can afford to pay for their health care. And, of course, foreign policy is now creating strange bed fellows across the piece.
Source - BBC News 31/7/06
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