Wes Streeting Quotes

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Wes Streeting

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 21, 1983

On housing, education and skills, health and social care, transport and economic development, local government is better placed to make decisions in the interests of local communities.

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There is a proud and patriotic tradition on the centre left of supporting our armed forces; being tough on crime as well as its causes; that expects people to pay their fair share of taxes as the price for a civilised society and that spends money wisely.

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The Evening Standard is a great newspaper staffed by great people.

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For all the cynicism about the media, it is a noble profession. Most enter it with a strong conviction that sunlight is the best disinfectant. They champion the public interest by taking on vested interests.

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I'm not sure how many of George Osborne's constituents in Cheshire read the London Evening Standard, but they will surely feel aggrieved that their local MP has announced that he will 'speak for London and Londoners.'

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In part because of my own journey from a council estate in East London to a seat in the House of Commons, and in part because my adolescence took place during an economic boom and the advent of new technology, I had assumed that over time we would all become better off and, as the white wristbands told us, we would 'Make Poverty History.'

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At times of economic upheaval and with pressures on livelihoods, history tells us that people can become fearful and resentful. In the United Kingdom, we saw that resentment writ large during the E.U. referendum campaign.

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People like me on the centre-left of politics have a fight on our hands. Our job is to appeal to people's hopes and aspirations by providing real answers to the challenges facing our country.

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As someone who won both a Council seat and a parliamentary seat from the Tories, I know better than most how much well-resourced campaigns matter.

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Elections don't come cheap.

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I'm not new to debates about bans and boycotts. I encountered them during my time as President of the National Union of Students.

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I represent a diverse constituency on the London/Essex border.

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Many families move to Ilford North because of our excellent schools and their reputation for academic achievement.

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The failure of state education in so many white working class areas is utterly unacceptable. Not to talk about it or to have any answers for how we overcome it, equally so. Nor should we be tackling educational inequality affecting white working class kids at the expense of tackling the disadvantage facing young people from other backgrounds.

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All too often politicians duck issues for fear of the connotations attached to the subject. Leadership, however, means confronting those issues.

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Labour's leadership must surely recognise that there is no socialism in going it alone.

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If we want to end austerity, if we want to protect jobs and livelihoods and if we want to hold multinational corporations to account, then we need to stay in the single market.

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If we were sticking to our convictions as a Party about what we believe to be in the best interests of our country, we wouldn't be man-marking the Tories, keeping one step from their position; we'd be making the running and setting the agenda.

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It's time to wake up to the fact that being part of the single market is the best insurance policy we could have against a race to the bottom on wages, rights and protections that threaten British workers and that there is no 'jobs first Brexit' without it.

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I owe the NHS my life.

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