Tories Quotes · Page 2

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

— Aneurin Bevan

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

— Tim Farron

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

— Angela Rayner

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

— Geoff Hoon

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

— Iain Banks

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

— Bez

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

— Frank Dobson

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic…

— Edward Abbey

The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners…

— Aneurin Bevan

As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their…

— Lucy Powell

Conservatives claim they are 'one nation' Tories when they have actually been a government for the 1% who have undermined our economic…

— John McDonnell

Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the…

— Nicola Sturgeon

We have views on social issues that may seem to some that we are hard-line Tories. However our economics policies and our…

— Steve Blake

As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you…

— Jo Brand

Somehow the Tories have deflected the righteous anger at the bankers who we bailed out. The Tories manage to take that outrage…

— Bill Bailey

In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the Tories are becoming much clearer. One party…

— Lucy Powell

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

— Lawrence Martin

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

— Emily Thornberry

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

— Jo Grimond

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

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

— Len McCluskey

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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Peter Mandelson

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

— Dennis Skinner

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

— John Bright

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

— Paul Whitehouse

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

— Clive Lewis

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

— Nicola Sturgeon

The truth is the Tories don't own Brexit. No party owns Brexit and that includes the Brexit Party.

— Claire Fox

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

— Harold Wilson

“I’m not going to support any legislation that I would regard as socially illiberal, or taking this country backwards.”

— Ed Vaizey

There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

— John Stark

Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk.

— Rhys Ifans

Most Asians I know still don't trust the Tories on race - and they have good reason not to.

— Mehdi Hasan

I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

— Winston Churchill

We are a million miles from the Tories. While we promote international co-operation and human rights abroad, they pull up the drawbridge.

— Ed Davey

The Tories are trying to lock the country into the old, dirty technologies that harm our communities and the people who are…

— Barry Gardiner

There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There…

— Martin Jacques