A biography for Nick Boleshasn’t been written yet.
“It takes courage for anyone to complain about sexual harassment or abuse.”
“We know that those who take part in work experience spend less time on benefits, longer in work and are financially better off as a result.”
“Paranoia is not a recipe for happiness or health.”
“I pay tribute to Theresa May for her sense of duty and her resilience.”
“Theresa May is not given to grand declarations about her political philosophy.”
“Consumerists want to encourage private providers to compete with public providers because they believe that this will lead to increased efficiency and a more responsive service.”
“We can't expect to be re-elected if we have no new story to tell and no new direction.”
“Exaggeration is the political pundits' stock in trade: nobody built a loyal readership on equivocation.”
“As chairman of the housing committee, I had to help the council wrestle with the pressure on social housing from asylum seekers and other migrants. It made it impossible for young adult children to find accommodation in the communities in which they had grown up and where their parents still lived.”
“Boris Johnson has turned the party of Disraeli and Churchill into a vehicle for shrill English nationalism.”
“It has been a lonely task plugging the Norway option - Brexit via the European Economic Area - to my Conservative colleagues.”
“As a one nation government on the side of working people we are determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum Wage receives it.”
“I acted as Boris Johnson's chief of staff for his first few months as Mayor of London in 2008.”
“It was only when I was elected onto Westminster City Council that I began to discover the downside of mass immigration.”
“I represent 100,000 people in Parliament. I have roughly 500 members in my local association and roughly 60 people on my executive. I'm afraid I'm going to claim the right to interpret what is in the best interest of the 100,000 people I represent and I'm not going to be bossed around by a very small number of people with very ideological views.”
“Policy wonks are often dazzled by the simplicity and clarity of an intellectual theory.”
“We believe it is our duty to deliver on the result of the E.U. referendum while maintaining close economic ties with our closest and largest trading partner.”
“The choice of whom to vote for in a general election is not only a choice of Prime Minister. It is a choice about the future of our country, the values we want it to stand for, the principles we want it to be governed by.”
“Norway Plus strikes the right balance between fulfilling the mandate of the 2016 referendum while preserving economic ties with the E.U.”
“We should pass legislation to restrict social housing to people who have been resident in the U.K. for at least five years, so that the right to social housing becomes something that you earn after a sustained commitment to British society.”