Grant Shapps

Businesses, not benefits, are the true ladder of social mobility.

— Grant Shapps

We want councillors and MPs to be more closely involved in housing issues because this will help to strengthen local democracy and…

— Grant Shapps

Newspapers in this country are famously independent of politics.

— Grant Shapps

Extra homes require additional services and councils have to pick up the tab.

— Grant Shapps

By scrapping the government's centrally dictated density targets we'll ensure that the right type of new homes are built where they're needed,…

— Grant Shapps

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

— Grant Shapps

Before I went into parliament I used to write business publications, and like many authors wrote under a business name.

— Grant Shapps

I have probably become a lot more Zionist than I used to be. Jews have a history of being persecuted over a…

— Grant Shapps

My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as…

— Grant Shapps

Business can be hard. But we need more of it.

— Grant Shapps

We believe that a civilised society can be measured by the way in which it treats its most vulnerable members and that…

— Grant Shapps

Having served in the Forces a positive when it comes to applying for jobs. But we know some former service personnel can…

— Grant Shapps

We need a system where some politicians - who quite rightly respond to the public mood - are prepared to stand up…

— Grant Shapps

I've always been tenacious. I don't let go of things until I think it's fixed. On the other hand I'm a fairly…

— Grant Shapps

The arts and crafts architecture of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City is now hugely admired. Remember much of it was stimulated through…

— Grant Shapps

Representing the people of Welwyn Garden City makes me intensely proud.

— Grant Shapps

I think he would care if you were a good person, if indeed there is a god.

— Grant Shapps

Broken Britain isn't just about our indebted economy, it's also about our broken society and broken politics too.

— Grant Shapps

My personal interest in IVF led me to author two reports into the availability of treatment on the NHS.

— Grant Shapps

A tax is something people pay out of income.

— Grant Shapps

We'll always focus on creating a society where people who work hard and want to get on in life are rewarded.

— Grant Shapps

When Welwyn Garden City was planned, the workers homes were placed in the east, downwind from the factories in the middle, whilst…

— Grant Shapps

Fighting poverty is nothing new for the Conservative Party, but during the 1980s the emphasis placed on individualism and prosperity was sometimes…

— Grant Shapps

When eco-towns were first announced we said that we would support environmentally-friendly development where local communities supported the home-building; where infrastructure was…

— Grant Shapps

For anyone who has found it easy to conceive, it is perhaps hard to imagine how IVF can become all-encompassing in someone's…

— Grant Shapps