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“As equalities minister, I am responsible for promoting equality of opportunity for everyone.”
“The truth is that our freedoms are being subtly eroded in an era where emotion and sentiment are prized above reason and rationality.”
“Friends' was the biggest television series of all time. Everybody loved it, it was syndicated all around the world. The idea that in a few years people are talking about it as if it's this horrific series, for me that just doesn't compute.”
“The right has to be more than the Tory party.”
“I am a black conservative.”
“People are a lot less likely to think that their family member is part of the government conspiracy.”
“I am one of those people for whom pregnancy is an ordeal.”
“With the rise of identity politics, the expression of naked prejudice against members of a supposedly privileged group has become mainstream.”
“Conversion therapy is a very complex issue.”
“As a young black immigrant at an inner-city school, I saw how poverty of ambition left many from disadvantaged backgrounds on the scrap-heap.”
“In order to defend freedom of expression, we each need to exercise personal responsibility. We need to make good choices about how we behave, based not on fear of strong legal repercussion or fear of the mob, but out of respect for ourselves and others.”
“Every party conference season, I'm struck by how much is spent on lobbying by the public affairs industry.”
“Simple language, simple ideas and a positive vision for the future - this holy trinity holds the key to unlocking the next generation.”
“When my husband and I are getting into a taxi, I always stop the taxi and say where I want to go. My husband jumps in the car and says, 'This is where we are going.' That's the same when men and women approach wanting to become a candidate.”
“People shouldn't feel that advice has to come from people who look like them. Because if that happens, then the converse is true: where when an ethnic minority is speaking people might feel well this person is only speaking for their sub-group.”