Liam Fox
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"Liam Fox" is a British Conservative Party (UK)/Conservative politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for North Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)/North Somerset, and former Secretary of State for Defence.

Fox studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and worked as a general practitioner/GP and Royal Army Medical Corps/Civilian Army Medical Officer before being elected as an MP in United Kingdom general election, 1992/1992. After holding several ministerial roles in John Major's Major government/Conservative government, Fox served as Department for Constitutional Affairs/Constitutional Affairs Spokesman (1998–1999), Shadow Health Secretary (1999–2003), Chairman of the Conservative Party/Conservative Party chairman (2003–05), Shadow Foreign Secretary (2005) and Shadow Defence Secretary (2005–10).

Fox stood unsuccessfully in the Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 2005/2005 Conservative leadership election. In 2010, he was appointed Secretary of State for Defence, a position from which he resigned on 14 October 2011 over allegations that he had given a close friend, lobbying/lobbyist Adam Werritty, access to the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)/Ministry of Defence and allowed him to join official trips overseas.

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It's a question of whether they have learned any lessons at all.

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It's simply not sensible ... for the government to say there is no link whatsoever between what is happening in Iraq and what is happening in terms of recruiting extremists.

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I've made it very clear what I believe in -- a sense of family, community, respect for the law, Britain controlling its own direction.

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Britain needs an education system that is appropriate to both society and the individual - and it is wrong to pretend that watering down academic standards in pursuit of universal achievement will do that.

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Inept from start to finish.

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Instead of reaching inside ourselves we need to remind the country we are the natural party of government.

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The whole thing is really quite pathetic. Here we have two self-obsessed schoolboys who spend all their time thinking about themselves and their future and not the future of the country.

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I am the only candidate who is going into this contest with a positive vision of the future.

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It's simply not sensible for the government to say there's no link. What I think is surprising is that the government denies there's any link - but the government's handling of this has been rather inept politically from start to finish.

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