Wes Streeting
Politician
1983-01-21
Quotes by Wes Streeting
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Going through treatment for kidney cancer showed me just how much strain our NHS is under.
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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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God, if you believe in such a thing, doesn't need protection from criticism.
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The civil war in Syria is complex and devastating.
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The party of Tony Benn and Tony Blair has always been a broad church.
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My dad is like my one-man focus group: a Sun-reading Essex Tory.
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The single market is unique among international trade agreements. It eliminates 100 per cent of tariffs on all goods. Not even the best free trade agreements achieve that. And crucially, it harmonises rules and regulations which mean that there are no barriers to trade in services, which account for 80 per cent of our economy.
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In an era of 'fake news' the role of trained and professional journalists has never been more important.
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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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At times of economic upheaval and hardship, history tells us that people can become fearful and resentful.
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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 is astonishing that the architects of variable fees in Scotland should be the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
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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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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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I was born in Tower Hamlets in London Hospital, Mile End. I grew up in Stepney on a council estate and lived with my mum and only saw my dad on weekends.
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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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Feelings of loss and loneliness are inevitable when much of what makes life worth living is taken away.
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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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