Francis Maude quotes
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“It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.”
-- Francis MaudeSource : "UK Politics 'Your Family Matters Most'". The Sunday Times Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. November 15, 1998.
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“Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.”
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“We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.”
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“It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.”
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“The party at its best has always been a modern party.”
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“If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.”
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“I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.”
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“Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.”
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“The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.”
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“So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.”
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“We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.”
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“David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today”
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