Words matter. These are the best Grant Shapps Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Struggling to start a small business is all-encompassing. It is a 24-hour job that places strain on those involved. As well as worrying about your own mortgage and kids, you worry about those of your staff.
While we recognise the challenges councils are facing, we do expect to see them match our commitment to the most vulnerable.
Chemo is properly punishing, and it’s hard to do things at the usual level.
I did not have a second job while being an MP.
Our reasons for criminalising squatting are crystal clear – we want to protect the rights of regular hard-working homeowners against the damage squatters can inflict on their homes, and the distress this causes in their lives.
I have probably become a lot more Zionist than I used to be. Jews have a history of being persecuted over a long, long period of time so I think it is absolutely right to have a country that is a Jewish state.
By scrapping the government’s centrally dictated density targets we’ll ensure that the right type of new homes are built where they’re needed, ending the glut of one- and two-bedroom flats.
Fighting poverty is nothing new for the Conservative Party, but during the 1980s the emphasis placed on individualism and prosperity was sometimes seen to crowd out social issues like helping the most vulnerable in society.
Look, ideally I’d like to have free money to give to everybody. The reality is in government you have to choose and make decisions.
It is ludicrous to suggest that we would ever do things that would end with people living on our streets.
I see the Conservative party becoming more and more attractive to people from all different backgrounds, particularly because so many of the immigrant communities are people who work hard and get on in life… so I think they are naturally Conservative.
One of the cruellest things of all is to have a huge deficit in this country, meaning that everyone’s children will be expected to pay back for our debt today. That is unfair as well.
The more the government has centralised, the less houses we have built.
We need a system where some politicians – who quite rightly respond to the public mood – are prepared to stand up in favour of housebuilding, so I came up with a system that gives local people something they really want in return for building more homes. In our case in Hatfield, it’s a new town centre.
Political shenanigans come and go, yet often what feels like a big deal in Westminster fails to get a mention on the news. As a result, the public wisely let most of the hurly-burly of politics wash over their heads.
Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle revolution.
Newspapers in this country are famously independent of politics.
Having served in the Forces a positive when it comes to applying for jobs. But we know some former service personnel can find the transition difficult.
We’ll always focus on creating a society where people who work hard and want to get on in life are rewarded.
An astonishing disengagement from reality is necessary to actually believe there is something sinister about protecting people’s homes from invasion through squatting.
It’s impossible to know precisely what constitutes the right house price but I do know that house prices doubling or even tripling over a 10 year period caused a lot of people to find that getting a foot on the housing ladder is near on impossible.
I believe that enabling former service personnel to travel more easily is the least we can do.
Labour have long since forgotten that people work hard to pay their taxes and support our welfare system.
My great hope for my speck of time on this planet would be that I live and die, and that what I leave behind has made some kind of impression and has been for the better in terms of my family and friends and, in my case, public service.
There’s no reason why the public shouldn’t be able to see how billions of pounds are being spent on their behalf.
Representing the people of Welwyn Garden City makes me intensely proud.
No government can maintain the public’s confidence if it is outwardly split.
I think he would care if you were a good person, if indeed there is a god.
The arts and crafts architecture of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City is now hugely admired. Remember much of it was stimulated through open competition.
Gordon Brown doesn’t often spring surprises. He’s usually far too cautious to deliver the unexpected.
Businesses, not benefits, are the true ladder of social mobility.
Businesses create every penny of the wealth we need to pay for our nation’s schools, our NHS and our pensions. They are our only path to prosperity.
People pay their licence fee in this country because people believe that we should have public service broadcast programming. Of course, there are lots of different ways you could do that.
We need to make sure that people are progressively better off in work than they would be on welfare.
I think it’s absolutely extraordinary that any Conservative MP considered even for one minute installing Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.
My personal interest in IVF led me to author two reports into the availability of treatment on the NHS.
We want councillors and MPs to be more closely involved in housing issues because this will help to strengthen local democracy and accountability.
I’ve always been quite driven so it wasn’t like the cancer was my wake-up call.
Most people don’t get the chance to do whatever their dream in life was. I have ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do and it has been more enjoyable, challenging, stretching and fulfilling than I would have dared to imagine.
If you believe in staying at home and looking after your kids, and bringing your kids up, we think it is a fantastic thing to do.
Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.
Every part of society should honour the debt we owe those who’ve served our country.
We must formulate policies to allow everyone to have the same opportunities in life and fix our broken society too.
I like being Jewish and I married a Jewish girl. It’s like a way of life and it’s good to be able to instil some of that sense of being in your kids. All of that makes me seem as though I am quite observant but actually the flipside of this is I don’t know if there is a God or not.
I suspect I have a relationship with my religion which will seem slightly weird to people who don’t understand me.