Quotes About Politics

When I have been speaking to people in Braintree and at other places in the country they really didn't buy into Labour's economic offer, didn't buy into scare stories about the NHS and clearly didn't trust Jeremy Corbyn.

I cannot be clearer about this. I am not in politics, let alone Labour's shadow cabinet, to keep things as they are.

Labour needs to lead - lead on Brexit, lead in Europe, lead for the people.

No one anticipated the SNP wiping out Labour in Scotland in 2015.

My message to Thunberg and all of her British counterparts is simple: the Labour party's door is open. We hear you, and we will work with you to do what needs to be done.

No, I wouldn't vote Labour, dear, if you paid me. I vote Conservative.

Corbyn Labour's budget numbers simply don't add up on the NHS and the economy.

My nan was very active in the Labour Party in the 1980s, her politics are way to the left of mine, she used to do crazy things.

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.

I want a credible, strong Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn became the leader of the Labour party, and suddenly there was a reason to get involved.

I've been going to Labour party meeting for over 50 years.

I was born into the Labour party. I was delivering leaflets by the age I could reach the letter box.

Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.

The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.

The greatest betrayal of the liberal left in this country is by the Labour party.

There are very good people in the Labour Party who I would like to see in leadership.

There's something wrong with the Labour party. There's something wrong with the fact that women never rise to the top.

Anyone standing for leader of the Labour party has a responsibility to speak truth, because without that we will never win power.