Grant Shapps Quotes

Grant Shapps

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 14, 1968

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.

Grant Shapps

As the people at the sharp end of delivering the government's commitment to tackle climate change we know attaining zero carbon status has always involved a flexible approach.

Grant Shapps

While we recognise the challenges councils are facing, we do expect to see them match our commitment to the most vulnerable.

Grant Shapps

Representing the people of Welwyn Garden City makes me intensely proud.

Grant Shapps

An astonishing disengagement from reality is necessary to actually believe there is something sinister about protecting people's homes from invasion through squatting.

Grant Shapps

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.

Grant Shapps

None of us want to live in a society where people are forced to sleep in shop doorways, on park benches or in dangerous, run-down buildings.

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The idea that squatting in some way offers a reasonable solution to the issue of homelessness is both false and cruel.

Grant Shapps

When I was starting a small printing shop in Wembley, I vividly remember coming out of the cinema, realising I had spent the two hours worrying about that month's payroll, rather than focusing on the film.

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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.

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Business can be hard. But we need more of it.

Grant Shapps

Conservatives don't love business for some abstract reason. We love it because of what it offers our children. Hope.

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Labour have long since forgotten that people work hard to pay their taxes and support our welfare system.

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We need to make sure that people are progressively better off in work than they would be on welfare.

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Labour voted to increase welfare spending again and again, without considering the effect that the spending was having, either on the people it was designed to help or those working to support the system.

Grant Shapps

I believe that investing in welfare is crucial - but I also believe that it only works if you're getting help to those who need it. If you're doing it with no results, it's disastrous.

Grant Shapps

I was so glad when geek went from being a bad word to a good word.

Grant Shapps

I've always been quite driven so it wasn't like the cancer was my wake-up call.

Grant Shapps

I think politicians just need to get out in the real world.

Grant Shapps

I absolutely believe that we're the workers' party. We are the party that has always been at the forefront of the big social changes that have promoted women and working people.

Grant Shapps