Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner. – Frank Dobson
I don’t think we can go into important local elections next year… with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we’ve got now. – Frank Dobson
It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money. – Frank Dobson
If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I’m wary of such talk. – Frank Dobson
My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals. – Frank Dobson
I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all. – Frank Dobson
