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Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
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Hansard, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 439, col. 302.
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9 November 2005, responding to Charles Kennedy in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions. Blair was referring to the likely defeat in Parliament of additional powers to detain terror suspects without charge, which happened later that day.

 

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