Nick Boles

I am an instinctive loyalist.

— Nick Boles

I don't much care what happens to the Conservative Party.

— Nick Boles

Politicians have to be straight with people.

— Nick Boles

Britain needs to build a lot more houses.

— Nick Boles

I don't think people change much over 40.

— Nick Boles

Those who are full of certainty are usually wrong.

— Nick Boles

Paranoia is not a recipe for happiness or health.

— Nick Boles

We don't celebrate England, and being English, enough.

— Nick Boles

Boris Johnson has turned the party of Disraeli and Churchill into a vehicle for shrill English nationalism.

— Nick Boles

In 1979, one of the key issues for the Tory right was Rhodesia.

— Nick Boles

Theresa May is not given to grand declarations about her political philosophy.

— Nick Boles

Exaggeration is the political pundits' stock in trade: nobody built a loyal readership on equivocation.

— Nick Boles

I was elected to Parliament as a Conservative three times, most recently in 2017.

— Nick Boles

We can't expect to be re-elected if we have no new story to tell and no new direction.

— Nick Boles

The desire to control immigration was one of the main motivations for Leave voters.

— Nick Boles

As Mayor of London Johnson could get away with amateur bumbling.

— Nick Boles

I refuse to be bullied into accepting that crashing out of the E.U. with no deal would be an acceptable course for…

— Nick Boles

The choice of whom to vote for in a general election is not only a choice of Prime Minister. It is a…

— Nick Boles

The capacity to listen, to observe, to weigh up evidence and to change your mind are some of the most important qualities…

— Nick Boles

In the EEA, we would not have a vote on new single market regulation but, through the EEA's decision-shaping process, we would…

— Nick Boles

It has been a lonely task plugging the Norway option - Brexit via the European Economic Area - to my Conservative colleagues.

— Nick Boles

Only one Member of Parliament left a hospital chemotherapy bed in a wheelchair to vote for the bill that triggered Article 50…

— Nick Boles

Consumerists want to encourage private providers to compete with public providers because they believe that this will lead to increased efficiency and…

— Nick Boles

Norway Plus strikes the right balance between fulfilling the mandate of the 2016 referendum while preserving economic ties with the E.U.

— Nick Boles

Although I voted Remain and was bitterly disappointed when we lost, early the morning after the referendum I sent a tweet saying,…

— Nick Boles

The crucial advantage of Common Market 2.0 is that it would keep us in the single market and a customs arrangement with…

— Nick Boles

I don't think we have done enough to reassure people about the motives behind economic liberation, that we genuinely believe that you…

— Nick Boles

I voted Remain and believe the single market brings significant benefits to the U.K. But I do not believe that it is…

— Nick Boles

Many governments run deficits of that sort of level year on year. So long as you are spending the money on investment,…

— Nick Boles

The usual objection to printing money to pay for government spending is that it will unleash inflation. That would be true if…

— Nick Boles

Our system of student finance has delivered the chance of a university education to vastly more people than ever before, and made…

— Nick Boles

We should pass legislation to restrict social housing to people who have been resident in the U.K. for at least five years,…

— Nick Boles

Not every compromise is a conspiracy.

— Nick Boles

Covid-19 has been a calamity for the U.K. It will leave a permanent stain on our country's history.

— Nick Boles

In politics, no argument is as persuasive as electoral success.

— Nick Boles

It takes courage for anyone to complain about sexual harassment or abuse.

— Nick Boles

Policy wonks are often dazzled by the simplicity and clarity of an intellectual theory.

— Nick Boles

Alan Johnson is the Labour leader that Cameron's Conservatives fear.

— Nick Boles

We cannot allow the kangaroo courts of Twitter to destroy people's reputations without a fair process.

— Nick Boles

The main purpose of the Thatcher government was to sort out Britain's failing economy.

— Nick Boles