Ideas Quote by Boris Johnson

I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home…

— Adam Rickitt

Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it.

— Sarah Wollaston

Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and…

— Vince Cable

It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.

— Rory Stewart

MPs are so cowed by the institutions and the scale of official failure that they generally just muddle along tinkering and hope to stay…

— Dominic Cummings

Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am…

— David Blunkett

If you want the public to believe in you as an MP, if you want them to believe in democracy, you've got to show…

— Lindsay Hoyle

Being an MP is about country, constituents, party and self - in that order if you ask me.

— Heidi Allen

Being an MP is quite a strange job, because you do it in two different places. Half the time I'm in Westminster and the…

— Jo Swinson

I think you've got to like people. There are MPs who are either painfully shy or who don't like public speaking or don't socialise…

— Charles Kennedy

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

— Tony Blair

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe…

— Adam Rickitt