Wes Streeting Quotes

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Wes Streeting

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 21, 1983

Going through treatment for kidney cancer showed me just how much strain our NHS is under.

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We need to learn to live with Covid.

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Paying workers a decent level of sick pay means they can afford to isolate when they test positive for Covid and are less likely to spread the virus to their colleagues.

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Ideas must always be subjected to debate and challenge.

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Britain deserves better than having both of its major political parties mired in controversy about how it treats two of our major faith communities.

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As I told the House of Commons, God, if we believe in such a thing, does not need protection from criticism.

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I have been a national president who gets the job done and who listens and leads effectively. My first term was about dragging the NUS kicking and screaming into the 21st century to make it more effective and representative.

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We need to be clear - leaving the single market will put trade and jobs at risk.

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We need an approach to Brexit that will help us end austerity, rather than prolonging it. That is why I will continue to fight to keep Britain in the single market after we leave the European Union.

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My parents weren't massively religious when I was growing up, my granddad was and I got a lot of my Christianity from him.

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It took me a long time to sort of accept myself.

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It's not for other people to judge me.

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I come from a single parent family but with both parents. I always stress that because my poor dad always gets written out and I always feel sorry for him because it's like he abandoned me, which he never did.

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I wanted to be all sorts of things. I went through phases. I wanted to be a doctor, I wanted to be a lawyer. For a little while I wanted to be a priest, which my dad wasn't very happy about.

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My nan was very active in the Labour Party in the 1980s, her politics are way to the left of mine, she used to do crazy things.

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It's not fair for Jewish students to go about their daily lives feeling like they are expected to justify or defend the actions of the state of Israel. It's ridiculous.

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My childhood hero was Timmy Mallett. He came to my primary school and it was the best day.

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One of the privileges of my adult life has been meeting pioneers of LGBT equality, particularly Waheed Alli, Michael Cashman and Ian McKellen.

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Art isn't my thing, I'll be honest.

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The vast majority of Labour members are decent people, but I think there is a small number of anti-Semites.

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