Sam Donaldson
American journalist
Daniel Hannan
British politician (born 1971)
Daniel John Hannan, Baron Hannan of Kingsclereis a British writer, journalist and politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he was a Member of the European Parliamentfor South East England from 1999 to 2020.
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Daniel John Hannan, Baron Hannan of Kingsclereis a British writer, journalist and politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he was a Member of the European Parliamentfor South East England from 1999 to 2020. He is currently a sitting member of the House of Lords where he takes the Conservative whip, and has since 2020 served as an adviser to the Board of Trade. He is the founding president of the Initiative for Free Trade.
Hannan was the first secretary-general of the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE), serving from 2009 to 2018. He was one of the founders of Vote Leave, one of the organisations that campaigned to leave the EU in 2016, and served on its board throughout the referendum. He played a prominent role in the referendum campaign, participating in a number of public debates. He stood down from the European Parliament at the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU in 2020.
Lord Hannan of Kingsclere has written columns for The Sunday Telegraph, the International Business Times, ConservativeHome, and the Washington Examiner, as well as occasional columns in the Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sun, The Spectator, and The Wall Street Journal. He is editor-in-chief of The Conservative, a quarterly journal of centre-right political thought. He has published several books.
8 Quotes by Daniel Hannan
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Political reporters no longer get to decide what’s news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day’s headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you’re news.
Daniel HannanBritish politician (born 1971)
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The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.
Daniel HannanBritish politician (born 1971)
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When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we’re ‘well-placed to weather the storm’, I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.
Daniel HannanBritish politician (born 1971)
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You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
Daniel HannanBritish politician (born 1971)
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You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.
Daniel HannanBritish politician (born 1971)
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Prime Minister, I see you’ve already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.
Daniel HannanBritish politician (born 1971)
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A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.
Daniel HannanBritish politician (born 1971)
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The U.S. states that allow for citizens’ initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don’t. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.
Daniel HannanBritish politician (born 1971)