Quotes from Wes Streeting

I owe the NHS my life.

There is no future for the Labour party if the debate about our future becomes locked in an ideological battle between two competing visions of the past instead of building a new politics that can unite the country around a vision for the future.

Attending party political conferences is an expensive business. Simply purchasing a charity rate visitor pass, spending a night or two in a budget hotel and getting an advance rail ticket will cost hundreds of pounds. If you want organise a fringe meeting or book at exhibition stall it will set you back thousands.

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.'

A majority of voters in a majority of constituencies voted to leave the E.U. I wish it wasn't so.

There has always been a problem with elements of the left, particularly the far left, who revel in their self-righteousness, who love telling voters how disappointed they are in them.

Party affiliations based on issues such as class or race are slowly eroding. Against this backdrop, gathering data about voting intentions remains necessary, but insufficient.

It's time to wake up to the fact that being part of the single market is the best insurance policy we could have against a race to the bottom on wages, rights and protections that threaten British workers and that there is no 'jobs first Brexit' without it.

We need an approach to Brexit that will help us end austerity, rather than prolonging it. That is why I will continue to fight to keep Britain in the single market after we leave the European Union.

God, if you believe in such a thing, doesn't need protection from criticism.

As I told the House of Commons, God, if we believe in such a thing, does not need protection from criticism.

The peddling of anti-Semitic stereotypes is an insult to a community that has suffered throughout history from the use of such imagery to create the myth of 'the great Jewish conspiracy.'

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.

Elections don't come cheap.

My parents weren't massively religious when I was growing up, my granddad was and I got a lot of my Christianity from him.

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.

I'm not sure how many of George Osborne's constituents in Cheshire read the London Evening Standard, but they will surely feel aggrieved that their local MP has announced that he will 'speak for London and Londoners.'

Labour's leadership must surely recognise that there is no socialism in going it alone.

All too often politicians duck issues for fear of the connotations attached to the subject. Leadership, however, means confronting those issues.

The civil war in Syria is complex and devastating.

We need a comprehensive strategy to bring about an end to the Syrian civil war and defeat Isis.

People around the world are asking their political leaders legitimate questions about their tax arrangements. And yet, in the case of David Cameron, it is his failure to provide complete answers that has aroused the desire for further scrutiny.

We need to learn to live with Covid.

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.