Words matter. These are the best Penny Mordaunt Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It is vital that women who have fought to get to the top, lend a hand to women coming after them – sharing their stories and acting as role models.
The fans of a football club are its greatest and most constant asset. Players, managers, owners come and go. The fans remain.
When we hear the word ‘slavery,’ it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful chapter of our past. But sadly it is very much part of our world today.
Obama confuses collective action and defence through Nato with the integration at all costs and damn the consequences ideology that too often motivates the E.U.
How we Brexit must preserve the opportunities that come from leaving the E.U., such as the benefits of an independent trade policy.
By helping investors create jobs in Africa and Asia we will help lift millions out of poverty.
Because of war millions of children are growing up with high levels of stress and trauma, missing out on school and becoming withdrawn from their friends and families.
Our welfare and health services must work for everyone. That means ensuring that all the help and support is wrapped around the person when they need them, not trying to make the person fit the system.
There are people who are alive because of British aid, people who can walk and see because of our aid, and children who can read and write because of aid.
Our armed forces don’t just do something. They are something. They are the embodiment of hope and of our values.
Equality means allowing people to achieve their full potential – for themselves and for their country.
The British people have a global outlook, they are generous, and when they see suffering and injustice they are motivated to act.
I will do everything in my power to ensure our country is a place where everyone, whatever their gender identity or sexual orientation, can be themselves and live their lives with dignity and respect.
Britain should not be held back by the E.U.’s protectionist stance which keeps so many developing countries from growing their economies.
We need to make talking about issues like depression in the workplace the norm.
Get things right for disabled people and you get it right for all, for the whole of society. Not just figuratively, but in reality.
Britain is a development superpower.
Countries need to invest in their most important asset – their own people – and it pays to start early.
Everyone in this country should feel safe and happy to be who they are, and to love who they love, without judgement or fear.
When countries are in crisis Britain leads the international response.
An approach to foreign aid which is fit for the 21st Century is a win for the developing world, and a win for the U.K. too.
I’m proud to live in a country where our differences are celebrated – and if we continue to embrace them, then there will be no limit to our creative success.
World Health Day is a fantastic opportunity to start a conversation about work and mental health.
Some sectors have a monopoly position, and football certainly does. If I am dissatisfied with my football club’s facilities or the players on the pitch, I’m not about to go and purchase my season ticket from the club down the road. That loyalty should be treasured and not taken for granted.
If the Royal Navy and wider defence is to deliver on the ambitions of our country, we must tackle the inadequate funding and political thinking that undermine the best armed forces in the world.
Our defence capabilities are critical to securing our interests and guarding our way of life, and they must be properly funded.
We’ve seen unscrupulous legal firms racking up legal aid bills for fabricated accusations. And we’ve seen attempts by them to pursue cases that stand no chance of a conviction, putting those accused through hell.
Our aid spend is a reflection of us as a big-hearted, open-minded and far-sighted nation.
Modern threats, like terrorism, disease and organised crime have no respect for borders.
The reality is that no Brexit deal can be achieved if Northern Ireland is never allowed to leave the Customs Union.
We all want to see a world where a preventable and treatable disease no longer takes lives or prevents women and girls from attending school or work because they have to care for ill relatives.
We should be proud that we are bringing hope around the world in times of dire need.
The simple truth is that unless you can control immigration you cannot govern because you cannot set a budget or plan public services.
I am optimistic that many, when choosing where to buy their lunch, will settle on the sandwich chain which a map, or possibly an app, says has committed to providing disabled access in all its outlets.
We will be a nation that is engaged not isolated, bold not timid. This is the very stuff of what it means to be us.
A thousand years of uninterrupted British sovereignty has taught us one thing. If change isn’t allowed to be a process, it becomes an event.
As we prepare to leave the E.U. it is a good time to take stock of what we do on the global stage, and that includes what we do with U.K. aid.
Businesses must ensure that inclusivity and accessibility is imbedded in the education of tomorrow’s planners and designers, and they must increase the amount of consumer information available to the public, and enable the production and swift take up of products and services disabled people want and need.
Our future defence relationship with Europe should be complimentary – and not in competition to – NATO. It must be effective, too.
On the island of Ireland the issue of the border is more than just a practical issue; it is about emotion, history and politics.
The Iraq Historic Allegations Team, or IHAT, was established with honourable intentions. But, of the many thousands of allegations put to IHAT, only a small proportion merited full investigation, and only a handful might lead to a prosecution. Some claims were entirely spurious.
As we have done throughout history, we will remain a country that will speak up for what we believe in, support the international rules-based system and stand up for the free, and fair democratic values.
Discrimination, hate crime and worse are widespread.
Bullies should not be tolerated.
Leadership means not shying away from issues like safe abortion when the evidence shows us these services will save women’s lives.
We must judge our success on more than a person moving off a particular benefit, but rather in the distance they have travelled to meet their own ambitions.
Having been an aid worker myself, I know the power of aid.
Every day millions of innocent children around the world experience unimaginable horrors because of war.
For some, a sense of responsibility towards their constituents prevented them from entertaining no deal, or in some cases any form of Brexit, even as their electorate asked for it.
We must not end up with further division by just reinforcing factions in the party, Parliament or the country.
We have always been at our best as a country when we have been a global trading nation and this role offers us the best prospects for growing our future prosperity.
The U.K. has led the fight against malaria for a long time, for well over a century in fact.
Unless we enable every one of our citizens to reach their full potential, our Nation never will.
Our democracy should not be undermined.
We must harness the energy of the U.K. science and technology sectors, whether in the use of cutting-edge technology to transform the way we do development, in creating drought-resistant seeds to boost food production, or in vaccines to wipe out disease.
Nobody wants the armed forces to be somehow above the law, or exempt from it.
We are committed to bringing forward proposals to end the abhorrent practice of conversion therapy.
Whatever and whoever you care about depend on freedom, on democratically elected and accountable people working to further your interests.
I know the majority of the British public wants to help when they see suffering.
The work we do – the breadth, depth and quality of it, the soft power we wield and the contribution we make to the health, wealth and prosperity of the U.K. and the world – should be a source of uncontroversial national pride.
We must look at all the support a person needs and its timeliness and accessibility.
To deliver Brexit we need to find a consensus in the party.
Fighting malaria not only has a positive impact on improving health services in developing countries, it also increases their economic growth and productivity.
Simply, diversity of workforce yields diversity of thinking.
We are not a superpower, but we have a legitimate need to protect and enhance our global interests. It is important that we maintain the independent defence capability to do so. We stand the best chance of doing so outside the E.U.
As one of the biggest international donors in the fight against malaria, the U.K. is already playing its part in responding to this challenge.
