Uk History Quotes

British Empire

Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century.

The jury is still out, and may always be out over whether the Britain benefited from the Empire or not.

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil.

I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.

The spirit of Dunkirk is something everyone grew up learning about. After Dunkirk, everyone came together and it set the tone in the U.K.

Europe existed before Britain joined it.

I grew up under Thatcher; the era of apartheid; the era of the poll tax; the era of riots. I remember Neil Kinnock was a hero.

In the U.K., we have always had international ambitions and international responsibilities. These obviously predate the E.U.; we have been trading and doing business in Europe for centuries.