80 Quotes by Esther McVey

I want to give the message that anyone can succeed given the opportunity.

I guess, as a young girl growing up in Liverpool in the '80s, when unemployment was high, my ideal job would have been to have been Minister for Employment to see, can you solve these problems? Can you get people into work?

That's what you've got to be to be an MP: a problem solver. How can I help you? How can I engage? What do you need?

Part of the Brexit debate was about control, having a say over our laws and money and letting politicians stand up for what the people voted for, not signing away our sovereignty.

I come from a background where people have had their own business, where it has been incredibly tough for a long period of time, and you are only as good as the last contract you have got, as the last job you have done, where the notion of a precarious existence does exist, as it does for a lot of people.

People shouldn't have to lose their accents to get a fair crack at the whip at a job or move up within a sector or industry.

That is what we should be doing: liberating everyone's potential, whether it's a self-made individual, whether it's someone taking the university route, whether it's the apprenticeship route. They are all equal and good and worthwhile.

I believe most people in their life will fall upon tough times at some point.

Life teaches you it's not where you come from, it's where you get to, and work is exactly the same.