Top 35 James Cleverly Quotes

Both the country, and my party, are beset with division. We cannot bring the country back together unless the party of government is united, and the party cannot unite if it is led from its fringes.

We have had political parties threatening to bring down the government, talking about it but not bringing down the government. What I am focused on is the things we are in control of. The timing of a general election, we don’t have control over.

There is one party, the Conservative Party who is committed to honouring the referendum result, getting Brexit done and then delivering on the priorities of the British people.

There are two things you can do in politics: you can sit around waiting for things to happen, or you can start doing them.

It shouldn’t be the case that young people feel they have to go to London to get the good quality jobs. We have to make sure those jobs are available everywhere in the country.

There is nothing inherently left-wing about young people in the U.K.

Once we have delivered Brexit, no one is going to say: ‘Oh wow, you delivered Brexit, I’m going to ignore everything else to do with politics and reward you!’

I regularly help constituents who have had problems with the benefits system.

So the better thing to do is to be right and be doing the right things for the right reasons rather than trying to be cool and popular and saying whatever thing is going to get good headlines or a big cheer at Glastonbury.

When I was on the London assembly it was quite common for government ministers to refuse to appear.

Voters don’t just want to see detached and distant faces on TV, they want to feel that they know the people that they’re trying to vote for.

You can never get perfection. There have to be constant course corrections and there will be constant course corrections on Brexit-related stuff once we leave the E.U.

I get racist stuff all the time.

When I have been speaking to people in Braintree and at other places in the country they really didn’t buy into Labour’s economic offer, didn’t buy into scare stories about the NHS and clearly didn’t trust Jeremy Corbyn.

We have all had, on all sides of the House – some truly appalling things said about us. I’ve been called a race traitor, a coconut, a sell out. It’s horrible and it’s never the kind of thing that should be normalised or accepted.

Wow, a left-wing leader getting a good reception at a rock festival. What kind of crazy world is it we live in that that kind of thing happens?

There is an awful lot you can accomplish by being a vocal champion for a certain cause.

There is a pattern whereby even if you can’t map out the exact policies and issues that might be dangerous for you as an individual… we’ve seen this before. And you don’t have to join all the dots to see it ends badly. There shouldn’t be that kind of fear from any community in the UK about a future government.

The Labour party still really has no idea why their people voted for Brexit. They still think that basically it’s naive Labour voters being conned by terribly clever Tories.

Because the referendum in 2016 wasn’t just about our relationship with the E.U., it was about millions of people and their relationship with politics as a whole.

Basically the real decision making in the Labour party is old white men, assisted by young, posh men.

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

I’m going to say yes, I reckon we’ll have the first BME (black or minority ethnicity) prime minister.

To inspire the British people we need to look different, sound different, and offer something new. I believe I can do that.

I don’t want to be the Grinch.

We have got to build more affordable homes in the south of England, we’ve just got to.

Boris is a naturally energetic and optimistic politician. And when he goes on the campaign trail that just becomes so evident.

The Labour party lost millions of voters because they failed to listen.

We just fundamentally forgot that people want to vote for something positive. They want to be shown what the good life for them personally looks like.

We didn’t get agitated over the closure of blacksmiths when people stopped riding horses and started driving cars.

The London assembly’s job is to scrutinise the mayor of London.

Brexit has given us the start of a conversation with people who perhaps haven’t traditionally voted Conservative.

Actually, Brexit is an incredibly important issue, but it’s not the only issue. And to be a credible party of Government you need to have plans for everything, not just for the delivery of Brexit.

You’ve got to have a winning mindset.

It’s the nature often on social media that people say things without really thinking through their position.