Forever Quote by Jess Phillips

Leaving politics was a good thing. I was spared a miserable Tory government where I might have ended up as leader.

— Michael Portillo

I was a Labour luvvie, with Blair. I wasn't really a party member.

— Maureen Lipman

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

— Doris Lessing

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for…

— Jonathan Coe

I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time…

— Lee Kuan Yew

I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted to. Then…

— Riley Keough

When I was a teenager, I was very political.

— Sean Scully

In the old days I'd like to have been a politician, when I think the world was more idealistic. When I was young I…

— Sheila Hancock

Politically at that time, with Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the White House, it wasn't looking too great for the Left. And we…

— Joe Strummer

When I was growing up in the early noughties, I remember the time being very serene, peaceful and innocent. But actually there was Tony…

— Mura Masa

I was interested in the ideas - freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That's why I became a Tory.

— Liz Truss

When I was at Oxford, I was a Thatcher child; I was fascinated by politics and I spent three years being obnoxious in the…

— Dido Harding