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He said Scotland would always be "an open welcoming and tolerant nation", but it needed a skills system that does not rely on migrant workers.

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He dismisses as “simplistic” the few pro-Franco polemicists who would give the dictator credit for the tolerant and democratic Spain that emerged after 1975.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Reed said the government was aiming to create a "fair, tolerant and compassionate" asylum system.

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It helps make the UK a special place; overwhelmingly kind, tolerant and curious.

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Meanwhile back at Heritage, whereas Strauss thought you should never force voters to elect ideological extremists to get conservative policies, Mr. Roberts’s tolerant approach toward the fringe right would achieve exactly the opposite.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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