Wes Streeting Quotes

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Wes Streeting

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 21, 1983

When I was at a tough inner-city school, drama gave me a friendship group. It's been so core to who I am and given me such confidence later in life.

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I was born in Tower Hamlets in London Hospital, Mile End. I grew up in Stepney on a council estate and lived with my mum and only saw my dad on weekends.

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The benefits of globalisation and economic growth are being unevenly distributed and people are acutely aware of their own relative disadvantage.

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Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer are quite right to call for a Brexit that puts jobs first, and to hold ministers to account for their promise to negotiate a trade deal with the E.U. that delivers 'the exact same benefits' as single market membership.

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I used to work in McDonald's. Serving customers helped me pay my way through my A-levels. I enjoyed it, for the most part.

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Feelings of loss and loneliness are inevitable when much of what makes life worth living is taken away.

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The civil war in Syria is complex and devastating.

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My mum was a lone parent at the age of 18, bringing up a son in the 1980s. The benefits system put food in the fridge.

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The party of Tony Benn and Tony Blair has always been a broad church.

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The weakness of traditional canvassing is that it prevents a real conversation with people who are, on the whole, less tribal and more discerning than they have been in the past.

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I was born in Stepney, in Tower Hamlets, and I think it is fair to say that I was an accident. My father was 17 when I was born and my mother was 18, and their relationship did not last.

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In my constituency I've got local authority schools, free schools, academies, I've got a grammar school, I've got independent schools that aren't far away - and the interesting thing is, whether I am walking into a local authority school or a free school or an academy, the name above the door matters less than what goes on inside the building.

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The single market is unique among international trade agreements. It eliminates 100 per cent of tariffs on all goods. Not even the best free trade agreements achieve that. And crucially, it harmonises rules and regulations which mean that there are no barriers to trade in services, which account for 80 per cent of our economy.

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There are thousands of kids out there for whom higher education will never seem a realistic prospect but who have the ability and the potential to succeed.

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People aren't going to vote for miserable gits in the corner saying how awful everything is.

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In an era of 'fake news' the role of trained and professional journalists has never been more important.

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The challenge is to replace our broken higher education system with one that has the potential to transform the lives of individuals and to create opportunity.

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I grew up in poverty as a child, my parents had me when they were very young. They didn't have money growing up.

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There has always been a problem with elements of the left, particularly the far left, who revel in their self-righteousness, who love telling voters how disappointed they are in them.

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My dad is like my one-man focus group: a Sun-reading Essex Tory.

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