Nick Boles

Politician

1965-11-02

Quotes by Nick Boles

• Covid-19 has been a calamity for the U.K. It will leave a permanent stain on our country's history.

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• Of course Margaret Thatcher was a remarkable and strong-willed figure but she was also a pragmatist, just as ready to upset her right wing as Tony Blair has been to upset his left wing.

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• Private sector suppliers have been the source of long-term care for the elderly and terminally ill for a very long time without any obvious bad effects on the quality of the service provided or the morale of those working in this sector.

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• I went on to vote with Theresa May and David Davis in every division on the Withdrawal Act that repeals our membership of the European Union. I am implacably opposed to a second referendum, which is simply designed to overturn the result of the first.

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• Most Remainers and pragmatic Leavers have supported Theresa May's efforts to negotiate a bespoke deal based on the Chequers proposals. And most hardline Brexiters have been holding out for that Fantastic Beast of Johnsonian folklore: the SuperDuper Canada deal.

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• I pay tribute to Theresa May for her sense of duty and her resilience.

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• Theresa May is not given to grand declarations about her political philosophy.

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• In 1807, Britain led the way in abolishing the global slave trade. In 2015, Theresa May built on that historic achievement with another fine reform, the Modern Slavery Act. We didn't need the E.U. for either.

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• If universities are going to behave like a cartel, government must be assertive in standing up for consumers.

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• The usual objection to printing money to pay for government spending is that it will unleash inflation. That would be true if the spending being financed were increasing the overall level of demand in the economy, and if markets expected the government to resort to monetary financing as a matter of course.

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• Eric Pickles unleashed a renaissance of bold, local leadership.

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• The Covid-19 pandemic is what insurers call an act of God. It has hit us like an asteroid strike and unleashed an economic downturn in which governments and central banks are mere bystanders. In 2008, during the financial crisis, it was obvious that the disaster was man-made.

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• It is unutterably depressing for hard-working students to see the amount they owe spiralling upwards, before they have even started paying it off.

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• Only one Member of Parliament left a hospital chemotherapy bed in a wheelchair to vote for the bill that triggered Article 50 and the process of leaving the European Union. That was me.

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