Government Quote by Angela Rayner

It took 15 years and a Labour government to finally see Section 28 taken off the statute books. But this victory belongs to the…

— Angela Rayner

It took LGBT activists 15 years to defeat section 28, but this is not a movement that's afraid of the long struggle. They know…

— Emily Thornberry

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped…

— Martin Parr

“Thirty years ago [written 2009], over-regulation, over-taxation, mis-regulation, statism, state corporatism, and economic folly, cosiness and regulatory capture, and a crescent ideological enemy without,…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities…

— Tony Benn

Margaret Thatcher was pro-choice. She voted to decriminalize homosexuality. Was not profoundly religious. She was very liberal on social issues.

— Phyllida Lloyd

[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a…

— Hilary Mantel

The neoliberal policies implemented first by the Thatcher governments in the 1980s and continued by New Labour and the current coalition have resulted in…

— Mark Fisher

I keep telling my Tory colleagues: don't have any policies. A manifesto that has policies alienates people. In 1979 the manifesto said nothing which…

— Michael Heseltine

As Minister for Women and Equalities, I introduced shared parental leave, extended flexible working rights and won government support to bring in gender pay…

— Jo Swinson

The government can't, after seven or eight years, say that the policy we had eight years ago is going to be the only policy…

— Nick Boles

This is an effort to have government coerce, force speech and behavior. And it's being pushed and advocated by the gay community. This is…

— Michele Bachmann