John Redwood Quotes

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• Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.
• The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.
• There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors.…
• When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is…
• The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer…
• You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.
• We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy…
• Europe is my continent, not my country
• The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too…
• Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less…
• The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has…
• The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to…
• The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to…
• What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved…
• Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right…
• At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and…
• We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those…
• Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer…
• The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures…
• We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an overall…

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