Nick Boles Quotes

Nick Boles

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 2, 1965

Private sector suppliers have been the source of long-term care for the elderly and terminally ill for a very long time without any obvious bad effects on the quality of the service provided or the morale of those working in this sector.

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I'm interested in anything that can provide a reasonable Brexit deal that everybody can live with and everybody can see some merit in.

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If they are given a real opportunity to affect the performance of local public services by electing the people who run them, most people will be willing to accept that the standards achieved will vary from one area to another.

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People tend to see David Cameron through the prism of their hopes and fears. Labour supporters want to believe that he is a lightweight who won't stand up to the intense scrutiny of an election campaign. Pragmatic Tories think that here, at last, is a leader who can reach out and lead them back to power.

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The main purpose of the Thatcher government was to sort out Britain's failing economy.

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Of course Margaret Thatcher was a remarkable and strong-willed figure but she was also a pragmatist, just as ready to upset her right wing as Tony Blair has been to upset his left wing.

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In 1979, one of the key issues for the Tory right was Rhodesia.

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The coronavirus pandemic is going to inflict far greater damage on the U.K.'s fortunes than anyone anticipated when it began.

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Thatcherites and other disciples of economic orthodoxy will argue that monetary financing is reckless.

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The Covid-19 pandemic is what insurers call an act of God. It has hit us like an asteroid strike and unleashed an economic downturn in which governments and central banks are mere bystanders. In 2008, during the financial crisis, it was obvious that the disaster was man-made.

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It has been a lonely task plugging the Norway option - Brexit via the European Economic Area - to my Conservative colleagues.

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Most Remainers and pragmatic Leavers have supported Theresa May's efforts to negotiate a bespoke deal based on the Chequers proposals. And most hardline Brexiters have been holding out for that Fantastic Beast of Johnsonian folklore: the SuperDuper Canada deal.

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Norway Plus strikes the right balance between fulfilling the mandate of the 2016 referendum while preserving economic ties with the E.U.

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Norway Plus offers immediate advantages. We would be in the single market but outside the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. We would be outside of the common agricultural and fisheries policies - able to operate as an independent coastal state.

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While offering economic continuity, Common Market 2.0 would mean we leave the political institutions of the E.U.

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The crucial advantage of Common Market 2.0 is that it would keep us in the single market and a customs arrangement with a common external tariff, at least until alternative arrangements underpinning frictionless trade have been agreed with the E.U.

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Not every compromise is a conspiracy.

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So long as you are spending money on investment there is a very good prospect that will generate a return in the economy.

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