Nick Boles Quotes

Nick Boles

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 2, 1965

It takes courage for anyone to complain about sexual harassment or abuse.

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Parliament must take responsibility for running an independent complaints service for everyone who works there.

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Exaggeration is the political pundits' stock in trade: nobody built a loyal readership on equivocation.

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In 1807, Britain led the way in abolishing the global slave trade. In 2015, Theresa May built on that historic achievement with another fine reform, the Modern Slavery Act. We didn't need the E.U. for either.

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Theresa May is not given to grand declarations about her political philosophy.

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We are the heirs of a long and proud tradition far older and more substantial than the supranational construct of Messrs Monnet and Delors.

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We should pass legislation to restrict social housing to people who have been resident in the U.K. for at least five years, so that the right to social housing becomes something that you earn after a sustained commitment to British society.

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E.U. migrants claiming child benefit in the U.K. should be required to provide evidence that their children are resident in the U.K. and this should be checked on a regular basis. This approach should be firmly enforced and defended in the courts, if necessary.

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It was only when I was elected onto Westminster City Council that I began to discover the downside of mass immigration.

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As chairman of the housing committee, I had to help the council wrestle with the pressure on social housing from asylum seekers and other migrants. It made it impossible for young adult children to find accommodation in the communities in which they had grown up and where their parents still lived.

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Alan Johnson is the Labour leader that Cameron's Conservatives fear.

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Councils should be given the power to buy land for new housing at a reasonable price so they can spend the money they save on roads, drains, schools and GP surgeries.

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Britain needs to build a lot more houses.

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I had this total horror of the idea that I might lose my mental faculties before being able to make a choice about treatment and when and how and where I wanted to die.

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Covid-19 has been a calamity for the U.K. It will leave a permanent stain on our country's history.

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As Mayor of London Johnson could get away with amateur bumbling.

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Prime Ministers who win re-election - Cameron, Thatcher, Blair - rely on small teams of senior advisers, strong figures with independent minds who complement each other's skills and test each other's views.

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I don't much care what happens to the Conservative Party.

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We know that those who take part in work experience spend less time on benefits, longer in work and are financially better off as a result.

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Being without employment and training at a young age means starting out on a back-foot.

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