Anna Soubry

“There are houses where they don't any longer have dining tables. They will sit in front of the telly and eat.”

“We need to stop all this over-puffiness of how wonderful everything is going to be when we leave the E.U. Because it's not. It's going to be very damaging for huge sectors of British industry. We've got to be realistic.”

“When I go to my constituency - in fact, when I walk around - you can almost now tell somebody's background by their weight.”

“If we have Brexit, we don't know what we will get.”

“'Home' is an important word for our soldiers, sailors, airmen and women. They regularly put their lives at risk in order to make us feel safe in our own homes while fighting to provide overseas communities with that same security.”

“It is very easy for middle-class people who come from moneyed backgrounds not to understand what it's like for people when they first go down to the dole office because they've lost their jobs.”

“I am simply not prepared to stand back and watch my country fall off a cliff edge. If that means voting against my party, so be it.”

“We are leaving the E.U. I accept that. But I made a decision I was never again going to vote against my conscience, and that stands.”

“Any soldier deployed overseas will think fondly of home. It is only right and fair that they are able to settle back into a home life once they leave their service.”

“We are lucky to have a free press. But in some parts of it, you have to search hard to find items concerning any negative aspects to Brexit.”

“We should absolutely train up U.K. workers - but it takes time to do that. And the reality is that there are a lot of E.U. workers that come here to do jobs that British-born workers will not do.”

“Brexit is a self-inflicted wound; the people of this country hold the knife, and they don't have to use it if they don't want to. The people, not the hardline Brexiteers, are in charge.”

“Hate is awful.”

“People do not use foul language in the House of Commons chamber. They just don't do it, and I don't, either.”

“I shall be true to what I believe.”

“Service people are capable. They gain world-class professional skills while in uniform. They use those skills in the most challenging places, showing the kind of teamwork and leadership most of us can only dream of.”

“Decent, hard-working Labour MPs have been targeted by Corbyn fanatics in an attempt to purge the party of anyone who doesn't support their narrow, divisive ideology.”

“Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that's where the propensity lies.”

“The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.”

“You have to be true to what you believe in.”