How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.
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Anna Soubry
Profession:
Politician
Born:
December 7, 1956
Nationality:
British
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We should absolutely train up U.K. workers - but it takes time to do that. And the reality is that there are a lot of E.U. workers that come here to do jobs that British-born workers will not do.
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We need to wake up to the reality of what migration is about. They come here to work. The idea that they take British jobs is not true; they add huge value to our economy.
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If we have Brexit, we don't know what we will get.
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Hate is awful.
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The only person I think I actually do dislike is John McDonnell. I actually do think he's a nasty piece of work because he's an IRA apologist.
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I don't hate anybody. I dislike people's politics.
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The greatest betrayal of the liberal left in this country is by the Labour party.
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For many of us, our country and the interests of our constituents are more important than our party.
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I think it's ridiculous and appalling that people have to go abroad to end their life instead of being able to end their life at home.
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I've noticed that every public health minister has been a woman.
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I just want my party back, please.
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I shall be true to what I believe.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg gets his tummy tickled when the ERG threatens to vote against a government bill unless it is amended on policy.
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I am simply not prepared to stand back and watch my country fall off a cliff edge. If that means voting against my party, so be it.
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We are leaving the E.U. I accept that. But I made a decision I was never again going to vote against my conscience, and that stands.
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There's a way that we can deliver a Brexit that works for our country, and the really interesting thing is the amount of Tory MPs working with Labour MPs, forming that consensus.
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If we had a vote in parliament, the majority of MPs would not vote for a hard Brexit.
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It is very easy for middle-class people who come from moneyed backgrounds not to understand what it's like for people when they first go down to the dole office because they've lost their jobs.
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I am obsessed by Kim Kardashian; I do try to find out what Kim's up to.
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I was never a bookworm at all.
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I was naturally opinionated.
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We need to stop all this over-puffiness of how wonderful everything is going to be when we leave the E.U. Because it's not. It's going to be very damaging for huge sectors of British industry. We've got to be realistic.
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I do object to being called a Nazi.
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Nobody voted to be poorer, and nobody voted leave on the basis that somebody with a gold-plated pension and inherited wealth would take their jobs away from them.
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I want a credible, strong Labour Party.
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It's disgusting eating over a keyboard.
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If it comes to it, I am not going to stay in a party which has been taken over by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson. They are not proper Conservatives.
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People will meet me and say, 'You're not really a Tory.' And I'll say I've been a Tory all my life - my politics have hardly changed. It is about making a society that is just and kinder to people.
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I'm an old feminist and member of the anti-Nazi league.
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I didn't go into politics to tell people how much salt to put on their chips.
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I cannot conceive of circumstances where Labour MPs are marshalled to go through the lobby to vote against us staying in the single market and customs union with the likes of Jacob Rees Mogg, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.
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You have to get the balance right, especially with public health, so that you take the measures that benefit the public's health but without causing people to resent you so that you actually don't cure the ill that you seek to cure.
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The Tory party must learn from its own history that when we fight each other, you can guarantee to lose.
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I came into politics to fight lefties... That's where political fighting goes.
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People do not use foul language in the House of Commons chamber. They just don't do it, and I don't, either.
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There is a sense of resignation among most people who voted Remain that we have to 'man up' - even the women among us - and make the most of what we know will be a rotten Brexit.
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For all the brave talk of Brexiteers that the E.U. needs us more than we need them, the reality is that they hold all the cards, and they are going to punish us for leaving.
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Our aerospace industry is a British success story which relies on Airbus - a collaboration with other E.U. countries.
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We've been slagging off the E.U. for decades, and now we've gone and voted to leave. And if anyone thinks they are going to offer us some great trade deal as we walk away, they are living in la la land.
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I've been around the block. And I have had the privilege of having been a senior Minister.
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We are lucky to have a free press. But in some parts of it, you have to search hard to find items concerning any negative aspects to Brexit.
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I made my position clear to the people of Broxtowe: that I would continue to make the case for the single market.
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As I predicted, young people who overwhelmingly didn't want Brexit have turned out in their droves and exacted revenge on a generation of Leavers who they believe stole their future while enjoying generous pensions as they denied them the first rung on the property ladder.
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If Theresa May is big enough to admit her mistakes and put a kinder Conservatism into the heart of her government, she may survive, reunite our broken country, and deliver a considerably better Brexit deal.
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To enter the U.K., you have to show your passport - whoever you are, wherever you're from - and you always will. That's because we have opted out of the passport-free Schengen area and have retained full control over who comes in.
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Brexit is a self-inflicted wound; the people of this country hold the knife, and they don't have to use it if they don't want to. The people, not the hardline Brexiteers, are in charge.
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I am proud of my loyalty to my party and my country.
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Decent, hard-working Labour MPs have been targeted by Corbyn fanatics in an attempt to purge the party of anyone who doesn't support their narrow, divisive ideology.
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Few Conservatives MPs have taken any pleasure from the witch-hunt against moderate Labour MPs by the hard-Left Momentum group.
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