Quotes from Wes Streeting

The economic crisis caused by a hard Brexit or the democratic deficit of a soft Brexit both risk fuelling Britain's populist right.

Common endeavour, solidarity and respect are the hallmarks of the Labour tradition.

I come from a single parent family but with both parents. I always stress that because my poor dad always gets written out and I always feel sorry for him because it's like he abandoned me, which he never did.

People aren't going to vote for miserable gits in the corner saying how awful everything is.

Change does not come easily to our party, in spite of its roots in our country's radical tradition.

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.

The Evening Standard is a great newspaper staffed by great people.

There is no future for the Labour party in Corbynism without Corbyn.

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.

At times of economic upheaval and hardship, history tells us that people can become fearful and resentful.

The failure of state education in so many white working class areas is utterly unacceptable. Not to talk about it or to have any answers for how we overcome it, equally so. Nor should we be tackling educational inequality affecting white working class kids at the expense of tackling the disadvantage facing young people from other backgrounds.

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.

I grew up in the 80s with a single mum constantly struggling to get by on benefits, with a political establishment that derided single-parent families, and downplayed the hard work and poverty facing various aspects of Britain.

It is astonishing that the architects of variable fees in Scotland should be the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

Tax arrangements can be incredibly complicated and are sometimes made deliberately so, which is why some people pay vast sums of money to put their funds in offshore tax havens like Panama, which is notoriously secretive.

The vast majority of Labour members are decent people, but I think there is a small number of anti-Semites.

The students' union and the student body work hard to support the university in encouraging applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply to Oxford.

For all the cynicism about the media, it is a noble profession. Most enter it with a strong conviction that sunlight is the best disinfectant. They champion the public interest by taking on vested interests.

Paying workers a decent level of sick pay means they can afford to isolate when they test positive for Covid and are less likely to spread the virus to their colleagues.

The majority of the public are experiencing the impact of Tory austerity on their public services, from longer waiting times for operations to a lack of visible community policing.