Confrontation will only lead to further confrontation.

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Yet it is one thing to say that reform is required, another to conclude that confrontation is the only option.

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And when many might have succumbed to the pressure of their peers to take an easier path, less fraught with conflict and confrontation, she kept walking straight along the only path she saw could create the changes Britain so needed.

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