Matt Hancock Quotes

Matt Hancock

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 2, 1978

The sign of a civilised society is how we treat the most vulnerable and our social care system is not up to scratch.

Matt Hancock

The strong economy means there is fiscal firepower and we need to use that to show people the benefits of the free-market system.

Matt Hancock

Lots of people say politics is about individualism and egos. I happen to think government is best operated as a team.

Matt Hancock

I've learnt that what you need to do is have standards that are agreed nationally and then allow people locally to work out what they need.

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The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.

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Well, the truth is that anybody who is a Conservative knows that the way you generate wealth and ultimately all the taxes that pay for public services is through business, people coming together to make something of their lives and to create jobs.

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I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way.

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So my dyslexia has got me into trouble, but I feel I can talk about it because I want to say to everyone who is dyslexic that the technology exists to help. The most important thing was being diagnosed.

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Spotting sepsis is one of the most difficult things to do early and the urgency is critical to whether people survive.

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If technology can remove some of the labour-intensive tasks where the computer can do better than the human eye; that helps.

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There are clearly skills shortages in some areas, and businesses can make sure they get the skills they need by training people on the job.

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But crucially, the apprenticeship schemes benefit apprentices themselves, who get a good foundation for a career, and it helps to open doors and break down barriers that some people face.

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If you don't vaccinate your child, it's not only your child that is at risk. It's also other children, including other children who, for medical reasons, can't be vaccinated.

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I'll go round the world looking for the best technology that can save lives and improve the lives of clinicians too. We need to be embracing it.

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My children aren't allowed on social media.

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The reason we need formal government guidance from the chief medical officer is to empower parents.

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Of course we've got to deliver Brexit; but then we've got to win a majority by appealing to aspirational people in the centre ground of British politics, where there's a gaping hole.

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The Conservative party's always been a broad church, and I can appeal better than any of the other candidates to the centre ground to unite the country, and to voters who will ultimately deliver a majority so we can really get things moving.

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I think that the big challenge of the 2020s for the country, and for the Conservative party, is to win the fight for free enterprise and the free society. This is under threat like at no other time in my lifetime. And the way that you do that is by demonstrating the benefits of a free market society.

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You've got to support working families. We should be looking to support those who strive the hardest, and increase the national living wage, to make sure that the lowest paid get the biggest increase in pay.

Matt Hancock