Abiding Quote by Tony Blair

The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are…

— Gordon Brown

The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to…

— Patricia Hewitt

Labour believes that our public services can play a crucial role in tackling the shared social missions of our time.

— Rachel Reeves

We will carry out reforms of the medical and nursing care systems with the citizens' perspective in mind in order to realize a fully-functioning…

— Fumio Kishida

The NHS needs to change fundamentally. It's a fragmented service when it should be joined-up. It's a last-minute crisis intervention service when it should…

— Liz Kendall

New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters.

— Charles Kennedy

The NHS needs the care system to work if it is to fulfil its own role.

— Damian Green

With rising pressures on councils, particularly on social care and looked-after children, we have to reshape the way public services work to break down…

— Hilary Benn

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the…

— David Hockney

“This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee to the prime…

— Christopher Hitchens

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with…

— William J. Clinton

New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of our natural supporters - teachers, health workers, students, pensioners, public service workers, trade unionists and…

— John McDonnell