52 Quotes by James Cleverly


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    The Labour party lost millions of voters because they failed to listen.

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    A failure to listen to the party's grassroots was a charge regularly levelled at Theresa May - particularly over Brexit.

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    One of the big learnings both out of the referendum, and out of 2017 general election is that parties that don't have a professional network on the ground slightly lose the ability to hear what local people are saying, so we've reestablished our network of campaign managers out in the field.

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    Voters don't just want to see detached and distant faces on TV, they want to feel that they know the people that they're trying to vote for.

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    Boris is a naturally energetic and optimistic politician. And when he goes on the campaign trail that just becomes so evident.

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    There are two things you can do in politics: you can sit around waiting for things to happen, or you can start doing them.

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    If we went around just throwing people on the scrap heap because of one or two things that they might have done in their youth, I think we would lose a lot of talent.

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    There is a pattern whereby even if you can't map out the exact policies and issues that might be dangerous for you as an individual... we've seen this before. And you don't have to join all the dots to see it ends badly. There shouldn't be that kind of fear from any community in the UK about a future government.

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