Top 33 Anna Soubry Quotes

I’ve noticed that every public health minister has been a woman.

‘Home’ is an important word for our soldiers, sailors, airmen and women. They regularly put their lives at risk in order to make us feel safe in our own homes while fighting to provide overseas communities with that same security.

I don’t hate anybody. I dislike people’s politics.

It’s disgusting eating over a keyboard.

I was never a bookworm at all.

Service people are capable. They gain world-class professional skills while in uniform. They use those skills in the most challenging places, showing the kind of teamwork and leadership most of us can only dream of.

There is a sense of resignation among most people who voted Remain that we have to ‘man up’ – even the women among us – and make the most of what we know will be a rotten Brexit.

For all the brave talk of Brexiteers that the E.U. needs us more than we need them, the reality is that they hold all the cards, and they are going to punish us for leaving.

I just want my party back, please.

There’s a way that we can deliver a Brexit that works for our country, and the really interesting thing is the amount of Tory MPs working with Labour MPs, forming that consensus.

Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that’s where the propensity lies.

The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.

We are lucky to have a free press. But in some parts of it, you have to search hard to find items concerning any negative aspects to Brexit.

I made my position clear to the people of Broxtowe: that I would continue to make the case for the single market.

If it comes to it, I am not going to stay in a party which has been taken over by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson. They are not proper Conservatives.

Students from other E.U. countries are worth billions to our economy and help drive it through their hard work and innovation.

We need to wake up to the reality of what migration is about. They come here to work. The idea that they take British jobs is not true; they add huge value to our economy.

Jacob Rees-Mogg gets his tummy tickled when the ERG threatens to vote against a government bill unless it is amended on policy.

To enter the U.K., you have to show your passport – whoever you are, wherever you’re from – and you always will. That’s because we have opted out of the passport-free Schengen area and have retained full control over who comes in.

You have to be true to what you believe in.

Few Conservatives MPs have taken any pleasure from the witch-hunt against moderate Labour MPs by the hard-Left Momentum group.

Something is going to have to give because, if it doesn’t, not only will we get Jacob Rees-Mogg as our prime minister, we will get a devastating hard Brexit which will cause huge damage to our economy for generations to come. And I am not prepared to sit by any longer and put up with this nonsense.

It is very easy for middle-class people who come from moneyed backgrounds not to understand what it’s like for people when they first go down to the dole office because they’ve lost their jobs.

I do object to being called a Nazi.

We should absolutely train up U.K. workers – but it takes time to do that. And the reality is that there are a lot of E.U. workers that come here to do jobs that British-born workers will not do.

I want a credible, strong Labour Party.

When I go to my constituency – in fact, when I walk around – you can almost now tell somebody’s background by their weight.

I’ve been around the block. And I have had the privilege of having been a senior Minister.

Any soldier deployed overseas will think fondly of home. It is only right and fair that they are able to settle back into a home life once they leave their service.

We are leaving the E.U. I accept that. But I made a decision I was never again going to vote against my conscience, and that stands.

I am simply not prepared to stand back and watch my country fall off a cliff edge. If that means voting against my party, so be it.

People will meet me and say, ‘You’re not really a Tory.’ And I’ll say I’ve been a Tory all my life – my politics have hardly changed. It is about making a society that is just and kinder to people.

Where I am in Nottingham, there is a Sainsbury’s, and you see children going in there buying take away food – a sandwich, but more likely a packet of crisps, a fizzy drink – and that’s their breakfast.