Dawn Foster

There's a thin line between mockery and endorsement.

— Dawn Foster

I was one of the few journalists who was quite pro-Corbyn from the beginning.

— Dawn Foster

Empathy is an uncomfortable force in politics.

— Dawn Foster

None of us are as insulated from poverty as we think.

— Dawn Foster

Everyone should have a right to a home.

— Dawn Foster

As long as almost no new social housing is built, gross inequality will persist, and class structures will grow ever more constraining.

— Dawn Foster

No one joins the masons for the handshakes. It must be for the benefits it can bring.

— Dawn Foster

The impact of punitive government measures is long-lasting and widens inequality and social discord.

— Dawn Foster

Modern life undermines any attempt at building communities and making connections with people without commerce.

— Dawn Foster

For years I avoided loose fruit and veg - an absolute minefield - simply because it was impossible to tell how much…

— Dawn Foster

The police have spent years pursuing Islamic extremism while too often overlooking the growing violent threat posed by the far-right.

— Dawn Foster

People never know what to do with women who write, especially about lust, in a way that isn't sanitised and held back.

— Dawn Foster

I want to know when my friends need help, as well as when they're happy; when they're vulnerable, as well as when…

— Dawn Foster

I've read enough dreary campus novels to know more than I ever wanted to about the punctured Oxbridge academic psyche, and feel…

— Dawn Foster

Every rough sleeper is the product of political decisions that have created a safety net riddled with gaping holes. No one wants…

— Dawn Foster

There is no golden age of public spending for the working class under any form of Conservative future, only the endless pursuit…

— Dawn Foster

Equality legislation, and audits on gender pay gaps, ethnicity and disability, - within companies and public authorities - all aim to stamp…

— Dawn Foster

Whenever rent controls or increased tenants' rights are raised, naysayers wail that doing so will cause landlords to flee the rental market.…

— Dawn Foster

While, legally, universal suffrage has been achieved for all undetained citizens over the age of 18, many people still find it difficult…

— Dawn Foster

Any attempt to redress the inequities and injustices that plague our society has to start with the reality that we will never…

— Dawn Foster

Making it compulsory to show identification before voting risks compromising a basic human right by creating further barriers for people who may…

— Dawn Foster

The academisation of schools under New Labour helped the Conservatives bring free schools into being. They said the new model would allow…

— Dawn Foster

Codes and signals are as important as explicit messages, and the two are linked. The bore pressing someone to tell them 'where…

— Dawn Foster

Council housing works because it pays for itself relatively quickly: the rent paid by tenants covers the building costs in the long…

— Dawn Foster

Good policymaking is evidence-based, and preventing crime and antisocial behaviour involves fixing the society we all live in, identifying risk factors and…

— Dawn Foster

If Freemasons won't be completely open about their membership, should we not say that in all cases membership is incompatible with public…

— Dawn Foster

Working within newspapers, so many of them are so used to the status quo, they're so invested in lobby journalism, and assuming…

— Dawn Foster

I've had grateful messages from people thanking me for being open about health on social media: from others with epilepsy who feel…

— Dawn Foster

Social mobility has always been a slippery term, with nebulous markers of success: how many state school children have to achieve postgraduate…

— Dawn Foster

Supporting and publicising the campaigns of smaller unions pressures bosses to accept workers' demands.

— Dawn Foster

Human life is fragile, and the threat posed to individuals in politics cannot be overlooked.

— Dawn Foster

Supporting people to stay in their homes is surely a better method of reducing homelessness than acting after the fact.

— Dawn Foster

Illness, especially chronic illness, can be very isolating. Not only does it limit how and when you can socialise, it causes you…

— Dawn Foster

The human cost of austerity goes far beyond the period in which a country's economy endures those methods.

— Dawn Foster

Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying.

— Dawn Foster

Public opinion isn't formed independently, but driven by narratives from the political class and the media.

— Dawn Foster

For homeless and formerly homeless people, losing their ID and then having to apply for and afford new ID is insurmountably difficult.

— Dawn Foster

Growing up poor is precisely as demeaning as you'd expect, and while forgiving bullies is easy, reliving those experiences emotionally is deeply…

— Dawn Foster

I'd no more listen to a physicist's advice on my fertility than I would let a mechanic cut my hair.

— Dawn Foster

Disasters can also be averted, which is why the rigorous approach after Ronan Point was the correct response.

— Dawn Foster