Words matter. These are the best Sam Gyimah Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Brexit is an immensely complex national challenge encompassing issues from sovereignty and trade to security in an increasingly interdependent world.
Westminster is gripped by a fanatical race towards a cliff-edge Brexit and nobody is stopping to think about the impact it would have on the everyday lives of the people we serve as politicians.
Ever since Theresa May’s premiership, I have become suspicious of the ‘lectern moment’. That is when the prime minister steps outside Downing Street to address the nation on Brexit.
The more painful incidents of racism I chose to forget, to suffer in silence, or use humour to deflect rather than confront. I didn’t want to be the angry black man.
One point leavers and remainers agree on is that if there had never been a referendum, and this deal had been proposed as the basis for our country’s future, it would have rightly been rejected by parliament and the public.
That’s my upbringing. Try, if it doesn’t work out, try again. It was the same thing with Parliament.
A society in which people feel they have a legitimate right to stop someone expressing their views on campus simply because they are unfashionable or unpopular is rather chilling.
Universities have a big role to play… making it very clear to their counterparts, their networks, that the U.K. is not walking away from the world. We still value multilateral cooperation, we still see the EU as a significant partner.
The sheer drop in sterling since 2016 is only a taste of what’s to come if we continue down the destructive route of a no-deal Brexit.
Every election cycle there has been some manoeuvre against me, so at some level I am used to it.
Nothing of substance is being achieved or even proposed, while the country remains trapped in the Kafka-esque misery that Brexit has become.
I want to ensure we have more nurseries in schools, and that they open in time for parents to get to work.
I was born in the UK and brought up by my single mother in Ghana, where being black was unexceptional. As an adult, I learnt to succeed in white Britain, going from a state sixth form, to Oxford university, to a well-paid job in the City, to becoming the first black Conservative MP to attend the cabinet.
Leaving people worse off financially is a Brexit outcome nobody supports, whether they voted leave or remain.
It’s a bit bold to go around saying, ‘Prime Minister, if there’s an opportunity I really want to be in this department,’ but that’s what I did.
As a black member of parliament and minister for nearly a decade, I was determined not to be defined by my race. I didn’t want to be ‘the black politician’, when being black is just a part of who I am.
The Tory Party only talks to Brexiteers. It almost demonises… It comes across as dismissive of those who are not.
Everyone who’s rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science… It’s something I value immensely.
The UKRI visa program, it’s going to make it easier for researchers to come to the U.K. and do their work.
Born in the UK, brought up in Ghana, it was a sort of childhood of hardship and difficulty.
My job is to help parents give their children the best start in life.
I’ve been involved in the Conservative party for two decades. I’ve fought for the party. I have an unusual background – I’m not your typical Tory recruit. I’ve spent a long time evangelising about why people should look at the Conservative party seriously.
