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“Visit any of the fastest growing parts of the world and you will find investment in infrastructure.”
“We must give individuals the opportunity to show what they are capable of.”
“No longer can a bailiff come crashing through someone's door in the dead of night. We have banned them from visiting between 9 P.M. and 6 A.M.”
“Unlike Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, I am not ideologically obsessed with the structure of our rail network; for me it is a matter of practicality.”
“Generational disinterest in education means that too many young children lack the push from their parents in early years which can make the difference between success and failure in schools.”
“Good health and safety really matters - we need to protect people against death and serious injury in the workplace.”
“We're ending the situation where any old thug can turn up and work as a bailiff.”
“Motorists in London have got to be immensely careful of cyclists. At the same time, cyclists in London are too often unwilling to obey the road signs. I've seen regular examples of people who just bolt through red lights.”
“All too often politicians sign treaties in a hurry, without reading them properly, and without understanding where they will lead.”
“I want to see prisoners getting support that is every bit as good as that which they would receive from the NHS in the community.”
“Britain cannot afford to allow a culture of Left-wing-dominated, single-issue activism to hold back our country from investing in infrastructure and new sources of energy and from bringing down the cost of our welfare state.”
“The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum - but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.”
“Britain has always been a good citizen in the world. We rightly provide a safe haven for people fleeing political persecution by brutal regimes. Our legal system is often seen as a beacon for the rest of the world, with people coming from all over to study it and embed its principles into their own systems.”
“We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.”
“European businesses will want to retain free-trade access to the U.K. - their biggest export market.”
“We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.”
“Travel costs should not be a barrier to opportunity for our young people.”
“To survive in the future, we will need our economy to be dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative and flexible.”
“I want to be the Tough Justice Secretary.”
“I'm a lightning rod for the anti-Brexit brigade.”