Clare Short

“Development is about empowering people.”

“I am ashamed of the way my party has behaved.”

“I think there has been a massive cover-up.”

“I feel that the behaviour of the House of Commons is disgraceful.”

“I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.”

“You cannot have a situation where you have a military presence in a country and the people of that country are not with you.”

“I was deeply, deeply distressed by the way we went to war, and the lack of truthfulness.”

“The truth is that the war was illegal and the arguments for it were false.”

“Globalisation is a reality. And it is not going away.”

“My own view is that if you're going to be a minister, you have to be a minister. You can't be a minister and a rebel.”