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Answered by Guy Kawasaki

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Answered by James Purnell

The priority is to ensure that everyone who can work has the opportunity to do so and that no one, no matter what their individual circumstances, is written off.

Answered by William Hague

Launching the Ethical Foreign Policy was certainly easier than implementing it and there are many who would say that Labour failed to see this through. I would say that it was a noble but an unrealistic... Show more »

Launching the Ethical Foreign Policy was certainly easier than implementing it and there are many who would say that Labour failed to see this through. I would say that it was a noble but an unrealistic goal.

As far as the Conservative party is concerned, our approach to foreign affairs will be, as David Cameron has put it, both liberal and Conservative.

Liberal – because Britain must be open and engaged with the world, and play our full part in making that world a better place for the rest of humanity. We will support human rights and champion the cause of democracy and the rule of law at every opportunity.

But our policy will also be Conservative – hard-headed and practical, dealing with the world as it is and not as we wish it was.

Answered by William Hague

Foreign policy is one of those areas where we are in agreement on many issues, such as the need to stabilise Afghanistan, not to allow Iran to become a nuclear state and to see the Middle East Peace process... Show more »

Foreign policy is one of those areas where we are in agreement on many issues, such as the need to stabilise Afghanistan, not to allow Iran to become a nuclear state and to see the Middle East Peace process succeed.

When our goals are the same and converge we want to ensure that we work together to ensure that they are achieved. On other occasions, like on the future of the EU, where we do not see eye to eye, we make our case strongly and work to persuade the government to take a different approach.

Answered by Anthony Lilley

Crowd-sourcing and user-generated (I prefer the term “homemade”) content take up a lot of my thinking time. I’m reading Cass Sunstein’s book on the impact of the web on democracy and it has lots to say... Show more »Crowd-sourcing and user-generated (I prefer the term “homemade”) content take up a lot of my thinking time. I’m reading Cass Sunstein’s book on the impact of the web on democracy and it has lots to say about how our societies need to come to terms with the shifting balance between mass and social media. Big media companies need to change their way of looking at the world to combine their skills with the conversation which takes up most of the web. I read “The Cult of the Amateur” over the summer – which I recommend as a way of testing your own assumptions about where things are going – but I don’t think the reduction in the power of elites which it describes is either as big or as important as the author makes out. Then again, I don’t subscribe to the post-modern position that the act of communicating gives equal value to everything that is said. That point of view just isn’t borne out by my day to day experience of how ideas impact on and stick in the culture. Show less »