80 Quotes by Esther McVey

The people I believed in were people like William Lever, the great philanthropic industrialist - self-made men who realised anyone could achieve.

For too long, people have had to neutralise or lose their accent out of fear of prejudicial treatment or to fit in. This has then led to a lack of regional accents, which has allowed this lazy stereotyping and prejudicial attitudes to prevail.

We never have been closed to immigration.

My dad started off in scrap metal, real men doing men's jobs.

Life is about hard work and getting on with things.

Politics is all about trust. Trust is like the soul: once gone, it never returns.

Life is not a theoretical problem to be solved in class.

I always thought, as I was growing up, that I'd be married with children. That hasn't happened.

First and foremost, we have to ensure that we have to get our own kids ready for work so that employers want to take them on.