Words matter. These are the best Wes Streeting Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I wanted to be all sorts of things. I went through phases. I wanted to be a doctor, I wanted to be a lawyer. For a little while I wanted to be a priest, which my dad wasn’t very happy about.
It took me a long time to sort of accept myself.
The NUS wants a serious debate on higher education funding.
I owe the NHS my life.
I’m not new to debates about bans and boycotts. I encountered them during my time as President of the National Union of Students.
When I was at a tough inner-city school, drama gave me a friendship group. It’s been so core to who I am and given me such confidence later in life.
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.
My parents weren’t massively religious when I was growing up, my granddad was and I got a lot of my Christianity from him.
Politicians can’t be expected to answer for the actions of their relatives.
Change does not come easily to our party, in spite of its roots in our country’s radical tradition.
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.
The students’ union and the student body work hard to support the university in encouraging applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply to Oxford.
The Evening Standard is a great newspaper staffed by great people.
I see myself as part of an LGBT community.
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.
We need to be clear – leaving the single market will put trade and jobs at risk.
Art isn’t my thing, I’ll be honest.
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.’
Isn’t it obvious that the peddling of such racial stereotypes is deeply offensive?
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.
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.
As I told the House of Commons, God, if we believe in such a thing, does not need protection from criticism.
Feelings of loss and loneliness are inevitable when much of what makes life worth living is taken away.
My mum would have gone hungry before I would go hungry.
There are so many students out there who said they don’t understand NUS or know how to get involved, and don’t think the priorities and policies of NUS represent them and reflect their interests.
Common endeavour, solidarity and respect are the hallmarks of the Labour tradition.
We need an approach to Brexit that will help us end austerity, rather than prolonging it. That is why I will continue to fight to keep Britain in the single market after we leave the European Union.
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.
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.
It is astonishing that the architects of variable fees in Scotland should be the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
One of the privileges of my adult life has been meeting pioneers of LGBT equality, particularly Waheed Alli, Michael Cashman and Ian McKellen.
I represent a diverse constituency on the London/Essex border.
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.
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.
Britain deserves better than having both of its major political parties mired in controversy about how it treats two of our major faith communities.
God, if you believe in such a thing, doesn’t need protection from criticism.
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.’
My childhood hero was Timmy Mallett. He came to my primary school and it was the best day.
Elections don’t come cheap.
The party of Tony Benn and Tony Blair has always been a broad church.
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.
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.
Labour’s leadership must surely recognise that there is no socialism in going it alone.
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.
For all the cynicism about the media, it is a noble profession. Most enter it with a strong conviction that sunlight is the best disinfectant. They champion the public interest by taking on vested interests.
At times of economic upheaval and hardship, history tells us that people can become fearful and resentful.
Many families move to Ilford North because of our excellent schools and their reputation for academic achievement.
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.
There has always been a problem with elements of the left, particularly the far left, who revel in their self-righteousness, who love telling voters how disappointed they are in them.
I have a different perspective on public services to most middle-class professionals on the left.
