Tories Quotes · Page 2

I've never done any cross-party stuff. I've no interest in sitting down discussing pensions or whatever with Tories.

— Dennis Skinner

I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.

— Peter Mandelson

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for…

— Frank Dobson

Labour has sold working class Britons down the river. Meanwhile, the Tories are now beating us black and blue in a dark…

— Bez

“We're not in prison, we're not junkies and we're not Young Tories...it's no small achievement.”

— Iain Banks

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

— Geoff Hoon

It is clear that my predecessor as First Minister is frightening the life out of the Tories and the Labour Party. Long…

— Nicola Sturgeon

Every time the Tories are in government, our democracy takes a battering.

— Clive Lewis

If we were sticking to our convictions as a Party about what we believe to be in the best interests of our…

— Wes Streeting

Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the…

— Frances O'Grady

It shouldn't take Marcus Rashford or Labour MPs to persuade the Tories that feeding hungry children is a priority for the state,…

— Wes Streeting

When American liberals go to the UK they see the Tories as the Washington Generals, and they see the Labor Party as…

— Rush Limbaugh

The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically…

— Martin McGuinness

Not all Tories are atrocious heartless fiends, I concede. But those who wield hunger as a weapon while claiming their own meals…

— Jack Monroe

As the Tories sit back with their fingers in their ears, we'll continue to offer solutions that show how we will make…

— Rachel Reeves

The Tories have been offering us a cocktail of incompetence and malice and Labour haven't done anything to draw attention to it.…

— Frankie Boyle

If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College]…

— Thomas Jefferson

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the…

— Evan Davis

Conservative Party membership has almost halved since David Cameron become leader. The truth is the Tories are financially reliant on, and as…

— Len McCluskey

There are lots of things that Jeremy Corbyn feels strongly about. He definitely doesn't like wars, nuclear weapons, or free market capitalism.…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

We need a sustainable system of student finance that promotes opportunity, encourages aspiration, increases social mobility and is governed by fairness. But…

— Angela Rayner

After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have…

— Jo Grimond

It is my view that our response to the Brexit vote should not have been to turn in on ourselves. At a…

— Emily Thornberry

“The conservatives had started bringing demagoguery to the table on the [Afghan] war issue the previous fall [fall 2006]. Whenever opposition members…

— Lawrence Martin

Those old Tories who are always going on about the Sixties and the age of permissiveness being our downfall are probably right.

— Paul Whitehouse

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

— Aneurin Bevan

The anti-European Tories were a fringe group - until they took over their whole party.

— Anne Applebaum

I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear.

— Nicola Sturgeon

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

— Alistair Darling

The graduate earnings premium, used by the Tories to justify many of their regressive higher education policies, is fast becoming a myth.

— Angela Rayner

They say that the older you get, the more conservative you become: perhaps that's the reason there are no Tories in Scotland.

— Frankie Boyle

The Tories’ major announcement was to scrap the Human Rights Act, because, and I quote, ‘people get very frustrated with human rights.’

— Tim Farron

I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way.

— Nicola Sturgeon

The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities

— Vince Cable

I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.

— Peter MacKay

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

— Tony Blair

Politics has become so polarised. We're stuck between the Ukip-lite Tories and Jeremy Corbyn. How is that a choice?

— Jack Monroe

The Tories have long since abdicated any pretension of principled global leadership.

— Emily Thornberry

“Still, to paraphrase what John Stuart Mill said about the stupidity of the Tories, while not all people who claim to be…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

I'm a Red Tory. To get a fix on this category, you have to go back to the 19th century. The Tories…

— Margaret Atwood