Quotes from Esther McVey

I've met people at the top of companies like Accenture who started off in McDonald's.

Politics is all about trust. Trust is like the soul: once gone, it never returns.

If that is your route, to go to university and get a job that way, that is fantastic.

Part of the Brexit debate was about control, having a say over our laws and money and letting politicians stand up for what the people voted for, not signing away our sovereignty.

Success isn't anything to do with being lucky. It's knowing what you want, taking the necessary action, and believing you can achieve anything you set your mind to.

Everyone deserves the chance to make their own choices. The first step on this pathway is experiencing the working world.

Only three per cent of people are born with a disability; the rest acquire it through accident or illness, but people come out of it. Thanks to medical advances, bodies heal.

What does a teacher do in a school? A teacher would tell you off or give you lines or whatever it is, detentions, but at the same times, they are wanting your best interests at heart. They are teaching you, they are educating you, but at the same time, they will also have the ability to sanction you.

One of my best friends was the first U.K. female fighter pilot.

I believe Jeremy Corbyn getting his hands on power is a risk we cannot afford to take.

When we cannot find enough extra money for policing, yet we are having huge sums to other countries in aid, it is time to start a serious conversation.

I work with a host of amazing women who act as role models, who give their spare time freely to encourage these girls to give things a go, to reach out and take a chance and to explain that should they fail, well that's just a part of life.

There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.

If your route is that you are practically minded, and that is what presses your button, and you do an apprenticeship and you get a job that way, that is fantastic.

I come from a background where people have had their own business, where it has been incredibly tough for a long period of time, and you are only as good as the last contract you have got, as the last job you have done, where the notion of a precarious existence does exist, as it does for a lot of people.

Life teaches you it's not where you come from, it's where you get to, and work is exactly the same.

People shouldn't have to lose their accents to get a fair crack at the whip at a job or move up within a sector or industry.

Outside Westminster, political debate must seem like white noise that bears little relevance to people's everyday lives. But political choices made by the governments we elect have a real impact on how we live.

If people are coming into the country to add an extra dimension, to bring skills and expertise with them, we have always been open to that.

What you've seen from the 1980s, particularly in this country, is far fewer people doing Saturday jobs and doing jobs after school.

First and foremost, we have to ensure that we have to get our own kids ready for work so that employers want to take them on.

The people I believed in were people like William Lever, the great philanthropic industrialist - self-made men who realised anyone could achieve.

You only have a true choice when you know what opportunities are out there and what qualifications you need.

When I speak to young people around the country, I'm impressed with the confidence and self-assuredness with which they look to the future and the range of options they consider beyond traditional routes.