Quotes from James Cleverly

The London assembly's job is to scrutinise the mayor of London.

There is an awful lot you can accomplish by being a vocal champion for a certain cause.

My fear is of the message we put out to millions of voters is that if change is not initiated through the ballot box, then they may regard disappointment in that as a trigger to initiate other methods of change.

The Labour party lost millions of voters because they failed to listen.

The Labour party still really has no idea why their people voted for Brexit. They still think that basically it's naive Labour voters being conned by terribly clever Tories.

You can never get perfection. There have to be constant course corrections and there will be constant course corrections on Brexit-related stuff once we leave the E.U.

We just fundamentally forgot that people want to vote for something positive. They want to be shown what the good life for them personally looks like.

Both the country, and my party, are beset with division. We cannot bring the country back together unless the party of government is united, and the party cannot unite if it is led from its fringes.

Actually, Brexit is an incredibly important issue, but it's not the only issue. And to be a credible party of Government you need to have plans for everything, not just for the delivery of Brexit.

The point of a political party is to attract a broad base of members and activists and lots of them.

Basically the real decision making in the Labour party is old white men, assisted by young, posh men.

Once Brexit is delivered, we then need to think about how we can make the Conservatives look new and sound different.

I'm in the most diverse Cabinet.

Once we can Brexit delivered, we can then start talking about those other issues which are much better at bringing people together. We will talk about local health provision, education, farming policing and the economy.

When there are legitimate concerns and frustrations it is never cool to marginalise and ridicule the people who have those concerns.

A failure to listen to the party's grassroots was a charge regularly levelled at Theresa May - particularly over Brexit.

If we went around just throwing people on the scrap heap because of one or two things that they might have done in their youth, I think we would lose a lot of talent.

I'm going to say yes, I reckon we'll have the first BME (black or minority ethnicity) prime minister.

There is one party, the Conservative Party who is committed to honouring the referendum result, getting Brexit done and then delivering on the priorities of the British people.

So the better thing to do is to be right and be doing the right things for the right reasons rather than trying to be cool and popular and saying whatever thing is going to get good headlines or a big cheer at Glastonbury.

We have had political parties threatening to bring down the government, talking about it but not bringing down the government. What I am focused on is the things we are in control of. The timing of a general election, we don't have control over.

When I was on the London assembly it was quite common for government ministers to refuse to appear.

I regularly help constituents who have had problems with the benefits system.

Because the referendum in 2016 wasn't just about our relationship with the E.U., it was about millions of people and their relationship with politics as a whole.