Wes Streeting Quotes

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Wes Streeting

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 21, 1983

I have a different perspective on public services to most middle-class professionals on the left.

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Growing up with my mum, often I'd be the only person at home. She would spend a lot of time talking to me. She treated me almost like an adult; she used to get mildly rebuked by my dad and my grandad for that. But she gave me a degree of responsibility beyond my years; my own sense of agency and even my self-confidence, I get from her.

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It is astonishing that the architects of variable fees in Scotland should be the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

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The students' union and the student body work hard to support the university in encouraging applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply to Oxford.

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The peddling of anti-Semitic stereotypes is an insult to a community that has suffered throughout history from the use of such imagery to create the myth of 'the great Jewish conspiracy.'

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Isn't it obvious that the peddling of such racial stereotypes is deeply offensive?

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Rather than allowing students and teachers to celebrate their success, some would rather we measure success in Britain in terms of failure; that our education system can only truly be of a high standard if significant numbers lose out. This is no way to build a world-class education system.

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Increasing student numbers must be a central plank of the Labour manifesto, backed up by action, not just well-meaning words.

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The NUS wants a serious debate on higher education funding.

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As a former president of the National Union of Students and a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Redbridge, I have been attending the three main party conferences since 2004.

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Attending party political conferences is an expensive business. Simply purchasing a charity rate visitor pass, spending a night or two in a budget hotel and getting an advance rail ticket will cost hundreds of pounds. If you want organise a fringe meeting or book at exhibition stall it will set you back thousands.

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Small charities deserve a bigger political voice and politicians need to hear us. Many of us are working on the margins - not of the third sector, but of society. In an age of austerity, our experience and policy advice has never been more important.

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Change does not come easily to our party, in spite of its roots in our country's radical tradition.

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Party affiliations based on issues such as class or race are slowly eroding. Against this backdrop, gathering data about voting intentions remains necessary, but insufficient.

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We need to open up our party to wider involvement to build the movement we need to win elections and change our country.

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Isis combatants, foreign and domestic, plan to attack us regardless of whether we extend airstrikes into Syria. The deadly and fanatical nature of this death cult requires a multi-faceted response to wipe out its military capability and erode its base of support.

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We need a comprehensive strategy to bring about an end to the Syrian civil war and defeat Isis.

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I feel very lucky to be part of our Labour family in Ilford North, where we conduct our debates in an inclusive and supportive manner.

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People around the world are asking their political leaders legitimate questions about their tax arrangements. And yet, in the case of David Cameron, it is his failure to provide complete answers that has aroused the desire for further scrutiny.

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Politicians can't be expected to answer for the actions of their relatives.

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