A biography for Julia Hartley-Brewerhasn’t been written yet.
“Winning a place at a top university should be decided solely by a student's hard work and ability, not by what they can afford or how much debt they are willing to take on.”
“While the ranks of MPs on all sides of the Commons, along with most of the country, are busy splitting into two camps, either for or against Britain staying in the European Union, you'd be hard pressed to know what Jeremy Corbyn thinks.”
“My husband and I lost four babies to miscarriage. I could not have got through the pain of losing those pregnancies without my husband to comfort me - and for me to be there to comfort him.”
“The truth is that a willingness to queue is no longer the mark of a true Englishman or woman. It's what you do when all else fails. Queueing is for wimps.”
“Of course some people who oppose mass migration are racists, but then so are some of the people who support it.”
“Taking offence is now our national pastime and metaphors are merely the latest offensive weapon identified by social justice warriors as being so menacing that they must be censored for our own good.”
“There is nothing unnatural about grieving for the loss of your unborn child.”
“While it is couples who 'are going to have a baby,' miscarriages only happen to women. Yet the emotional trauma of the overwhelming sense of loss and grief affects both parents.”
“It's not that women aren't funny or that they're not interesting company , it's just that you can sometimes have too much of a supportive, intuitive, caring, sharing kind of thing.”
“When did we all become so fragile that mere metaphors could turn us all into fainting flowers? When did we stop being allowed to take the mickey, to poke fun at, and, yes, be a bit rude and cruel about things we don't like?”
“We don't need the E.U. for our economy to thrive.”
“Our beloved NHS, created in 1948 to care for us from the cradle to the grave, has become a bottomless money pit. And it's all our fault.”
“Feeling under the weather is just part of everyday life.”
“What seems cruel and heartless to one is common sense for another.”
“Politicians don't decide how much people buy from or sell to us: customers do. And they won't give two hoots whether we are in the E.U. or out of it.”
“Making cuts to NHS spending will mean tough choices for politicians and our doctors; it may well mean tough choices for us patients too.”
“After my own trials and tribulations, I have become evangelical in my campaign to educate and advise young women not to leave starting a family until too late, advising colleagues to 'get on with it' as soon as possible.”
“Babies need fathers as well as mothers.”
“Playing cards isn't just a game, it's a lesson in life.”
“We have no duty of care to improve the lot of poor Romanians or Poles or Pakistanis or anyone else who is not a British citizen.”