Wes Streeting Quotes

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Wes Streeting

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 21, 1983

Tax arrangements can be incredibly complicated and are sometimes made deliberately so, which is why some people pay vast sums of money to put their funds in offshore tax havens like Panama, which is notoriously secretive.

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A majority of voters in a majority of constituencies voted to leave the E.U. I wish it wasn't so.

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At times of economic upheaval and hardship, history tells us that people can become fearful and resentful.

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Millions are at the sharp end of globalisation, victims of economic inequality and social injustice, best summed up by the phrase we heard again and again from leave voters when told that leaving the E.U. would make our country worse off: 'Things can't get worse than this.'

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We need an education system that prepares people to seize the opportunities of the 21st century - from tackling the inequality that sees the poorest kids arriving at school at a disadvantage from the age of five to creating a truly lifelong learning system to help people reskill and retrain as they're living longer and working longer.

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The Conservatives have their own racist demons to confront: from the immigration policy that brought us the Windrush scandal to appalling Islamophobia at every level of their party.

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The majority of the public are experiencing the impact of Tory austerity on their public services, from longer waiting times for operations to a lack of visible community policing.

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Common endeavour, solidarity and respect are the hallmarks of the Labour tradition.

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God, if you believe in such a thing, doesn't need protection from criticism.

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There is no future for the Labour party in Corbynism without Corbyn.

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There is no future for the Labour party if the debate about our future becomes locked in an ideological battle between two competing visions of the past instead of building a new politics that can unite the country around a vision for the future.

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Unless we face the future with answers to the real and dangerous challenges facing our country and our world we risk becoming a cautionary tale to future generations about how it was that a once-major political party managed to... stall progress, empower our opponents and disappear quietly into a vacuum of our own making.

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It shouldn't take Marcus Rashford or Labour MPs to persuade the Tories that feeding hungry children is a priority for the state, and where parents can't feed their children we as a society have a responsibility to step in.

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My mum would have gone hungry before I would go hungry.

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There are so many students out there who said they don't understand NUS or know how to get involved, and don't think the priorities and policies of NUS represent them and reflect their interests.

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In an ideal world, of course, we would still be arguing for free education. If I was starting with a blank sheet of paper, I would have system that was funded by progressive taxation where graduates aren't making that contribution. But we don't live in an ideal world.

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I grew up in the 80s with a single mum constantly struggling to get by on benefits, with a political establishment that derided single-parent families, and downplayed the hard work and poverty facing various aspects of Britain.

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I see myself as part of an LGBT community.

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Every great Labour government has been elected with a compelling national story about the condition of Britain and how they intended to change it to meet the challenges of the day in the interests of the common good.

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The economic crisis caused by a hard Brexit or the democratic deficit of a soft Brexit both risk fuelling Britain's populist right.

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