Top 55 Wes Streeting Quotes

As someone who won both a Council seat and a parliamentary seat from the Tories, I know better than most how much well-resourced campaigns matter.

The majority of the public are experiencing the impact of Tory austerity on their public services, from longer waiting times for operations to a lack of visible community policing.

My mum was a lone parent at the age of 18, bringing up a son in the 1980s. The benefits system put food in the fridge.

Many families move to Ilford North because of our excellent schools and their reputation for academic achievement.

The Evening Standard is a great newspaper staffed by great people.

We need to be clear – leaving the single market will put trade and jobs at risk.

Politicians can’t be expected to answer for the actions of their relatives.

I have a different perspective on public services to most middle-class professionals on the left.

Isn’t it obvious that the peddling of such racial stereotypes is deeply offensive?

I grew up in the 80s with a single mum constantly struggling to get by on benefits, with a political establishment that derided single-parent families, and downplayed the hard work and poverty facing various aspects of Britain.

Millions are at the sharp end of globalisation, victims of economic inequality and social injustice, best summed up by the phrase we heard again and again from leave voters when told that leaving the E.U. would make our country worse off: ‘Things can’t get worse than this.’

I feel very lucky to be part of our Labour family in Ilford North, where we conduct our debates in an inclusive and supportive manner.

It’s not for other people to judge me.

At times of economic upheaval and with pressures on livelihoods, history tells us that people can become fearful and resentful. In the United Kingdom, we saw that resentment writ large during the E.U. referendum campaign.

Common endeavour, solidarity and respect are the hallmarks of the Labour tradition.

The challenge is to replace our broken higher education system with one that has the potential to transform the lives of individuals and to create opportunity.

As a former president of the National Union of Students and a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Redbridge, I have been attending the three main party conferences since 2004.

Every great Labour government has been elected with a compelling national story about the condition of Britain and how they intended to change it to meet the challenges of the day in the interests of the common good.

I’m not new to debates about bans and boycotts. I encountered them during my time as President of the National Union of Students.

My mum would have gone hungry before I would go hungry.

There is a proud and patriotic tradition on the centre left of supporting our armed forces; being tough on crime as well as its causes; that expects people to pay their fair share of taxes as the price for a civilised society and that spends money wisely.

Paying workers a decent level of sick pay means they can afford to isolate when they test positive for Covid and are less likely to spread the virus to their colleagues.

My nan was very active in the Labour Party in the 1980s, her politics are way to the left of mine, she used to do crazy things.

People around the world are asking their political leaders legitimate questions about their tax arrangements. And yet, in the case of David Cameron, it is his failure to provide complete answers that has aroused the desire for further scrutiny.

I owe the NHS my life.

The Conservatives have their own racist demons to confront: from the immigration policy that brought us the Windrush scandal to appalling Islamophobia at every level of their party.

I was born in Tower Hamlets in London Hospital, Mile End. I grew up in Stepney on a council estate and lived with my mum and only saw my dad on weekends.

The economic crisis caused by a hard Brexit or the democratic deficit of a soft Brexit both risk fuelling Britain’s populist right.

There are thousands of kids out there for whom higher education will never seem a realistic prospect but who have the ability and the potential to succeed.

Change does not come easily to our party, in spite of its roots in our country’s radical tradition.

The weakness of traditional canvassing is that it prevents a real conversation with people who are, on the whole, less tribal and more discerning than they have been in the past.

God, if you believe in such a thing, doesn’t need protection from criticism.

Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer are quite right to call for a Brexit that puts jobs first, and to hold ministers to account for their promise to negotiate a trade deal with the E.U. that delivers ‘the exact same benefits’ as single market membership.

I was born in Stepney, in Tower Hamlets, and I think it is fair to say that I was an accident. My father was 17 when I was born and my mother was 18, and their relationship did not last.

The NUS wants a serious debate on higher education funding.

We need a comprehensive strategy to bring about an end to the Syrian civil war and defeat Isis.

Small charities deserve a bigger political voice and politicians need to hear us. Many of us are working on the margins – not of the third sector, but of society. In an age of austerity, our experience and policy advice has never been more important.

We need to learn to live with Covid.

At times of economic upheaval and hardship, history tells us that people can become fearful and resentful.

It is astonishing that the architects of variable fees in Scotland should be the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

I see myself as part of an LGBT community.

If we want to end austerity, if we want to protect jobs and livelihoods and if we want to hold multinational corporations to account, then we need to stay in the single market.

Labour’s leadership must surely recognise that there is no socialism in going it alone.

There is no future for the Labour party if the debate about our future becomes locked in an ideological battle between two competing visions of the past instead of building a new politics that can unite the country around a vision for the future.

Tax arrangements can be incredibly complicated and are sometimes made deliberately so, which is why some people pay vast sums of money to put their funds in offshore tax havens like Panama, which is notoriously secretive.

Increasing student numbers must be a central plank of the Labour manifesto, backed up by action, not just well-meaning words.

Elections don’t come cheap.

I come from a single parent family but with both parents. I always stress that because my poor dad always gets written out and I always feel sorry for him because it’s like he abandoned me, which he never did.

I represent a diverse constituency on the London/Essex border.

If we were sticking to our convictions as a Party about what we believe to be in the best interests of our country, we wouldn’t be man-marking the Tories, keeping one step from their position; we’d be making the running and setting the agenda.

In an ideal world, of course, we would still be arguing for free education. If I was starting with a blank sheet of paper, I would have system that was funded by progressive taxation where graduates aren’t making that contribution. But we don’t live in an ideal world.

The benefits of globalisation and economic growth are being unevenly distributed and people are acutely aware of their own relative disadvantage.

I used to work in McDonald’s. Serving customers helped me pay my way through my A-levels. I enjoyed it, for the most part.

We need to open up our party to wider involvement to build the movement we need to win elections and change our country.

I’m not sure how many of George Osborne’s constituents in Cheshire read the London Evening Standard, but they will surely feel aggrieved that their local MP has announced that he will ‘speak for London and Londoners.’