A biography for Wes Streetinghasn’t been written yet.
“Common endeavour, solidarity and respect are the hallmarks of the Labour tradition.”
“Small charities deserve a bigger political voice and politicians need to hear us. Many of us are working on the margins - not of the third sector, but of society. In an age of austerity, our experience and policy advice has never been more important.”
“People like me on the centre-left of politics have a fight on our hands. Our job is to appeal to people's hopes and aspirations by providing real answers to the challenges facing our country.”
“I have a different perspective on public services to most middle-class professionals on the left.”
“I feel very lucky to be part of our Labour family in Ilford North, where we conduct our debates in an inclusive and supportive manner.”
“Unless we face the future with answers to the real and dangerous challenges facing our country and our world we risk becoming a cautionary tale to future generations about how it was that a once-major political party managed to... stall progress, empower our opponents and disappear quietly into a vacuum of our own making.”
“It is astonishing that the architects of variable fees in Scotland should be the Scottish Liberal Democrats.”
“All too often politicians duck issues for fear of the connotations attached to the subject. Leadership, however, means confronting those issues.”
“My mum would have gone hungry before I would go hungry.”
“Millions are at the sharp end of globalisation, victims of economic inequality and social injustice, best summed up by the phrase we heard again and again from leave voters when told that leaving the E.U. would make our country worse off: 'Things can't get worse than this.'”
“The benefits of globalisation and economic growth are being unevenly distributed and people are acutely aware of their own relative disadvantage.”
“Elections don't come cheap.”
“There is a proud and patriotic tradition on the centre left of supporting our armed forces; being tough on crime as well as its causes; that expects people to pay their fair share of taxes as the price for a civilised society and that spends money wisely.”
“Going through treatment for kidney cancer showed me just how much strain our NHS is under.”
“I used to work in McDonald's. Serving customers helped me pay my way through my A-levels. I enjoyed it, for the most part.”
“It's not fair for Jewish students to go about their daily lives feeling like they are expected to justify or defend the actions of the state of Israel. It's ridiculous.”
“If we want to end austerity, if we want to protect jobs and livelihoods and if we want to hold multinational corporations to account, then we need to stay in the single market.”
“It's not for other people to judge me.”
“The Evening Standard is a great newspaper staffed by great people.”
“It took me a long time to sort of accept myself.”