Grant Shapps Quotes

Grant Shapps

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 14, 1968

I don't see any reason why society can't function well when people come together in the common interest under our system. In fact that's what the Big Society is all about!

Grant Shapps

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.

Grant Shapps

We want councillors and MPs to be more closely involved in housing issues because this will help to strengthen local democracy and accountability.

Grant Shapps

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

Grant Shapps

We must formulate policies to allow everyone to have the same opportunities in life and fix our broken society too.

Grant Shapps

Broken Britain isn't just about our indebted economy, it's also about our broken society and broken politics too.

Grant Shapps

Newspapers in this country are famously independent of politics.

Grant Shapps

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.

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People like me - who set up a homelessness foundation, worked with all the homeless charities, authored probably six of seven homelessness papers - don't make changes without thinking through the impact of them on the homeless.

Grant Shapps

It is ludicrous to suggest that we would ever do things that would end with people living on our streets.

Grant Shapps

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.

Grant Shapps

It's almost impossible to get the outside world to take any notice of homelessness at all.

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We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force.

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Businesses, not benefits, are the true ladder of social mobility.

Grant Shapps

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.

Grant Shapps

Look at the growing middle class in India. Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force of social justice too.

Grant Shapps

I did not have a second job while being an MP.

Grant Shapps

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.

Grant Shapps

I think it's absolutely extraordinary that any Conservative MP considered even for one minute installing Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.

Grant Shapps