80 Quotes by Esther McVey

People no longer have one job for life, so it is right that younger generations adapt.

Work experience for many is their first taste of work and an essential first step into the jobs market.

Not only does work experience provide the opportunity to sample a potential career, but it also builds the essential skills often regarded as 'soft skills' that are needed to thrive in work.

I, for one, want to make sure we give every young person the chance to find the fuel for their confidence, something that will power their ambition.

Everyone deserves the chance to make their own choices. The first step on this pathway is experiencing the working world.

Outside Westminster, political debate must seem like white noise that bears little relevance to people's everyday lives. But political choices made by the governments we elect have a real impact on how we live.

Labour parades compassion for the poor, but it practised casual cruelty by consigning millions to benefits. Yet there's nothing compassionate about being trapped on benefits, being robbed of the dignity of work, and shut out from the choices that brings.

Labour's disastrous legacy and the Conservative success did not happen by accident: it was about the choices each party made, choices that impact on everyone.

Every Labour government has left office with higher unemployment than when it entered.