Quotes by Lucy Powell

“Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.”

“I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.”

“It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it to...”

“Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.”

“In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world.”

“At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.”

“Horrific details of systematic child abuse in Oxford. Resonance w cases in Rochdale, Rotherham & elsewhere. Issues need wider inquiry now.”

“I don't think that anyone is suggesting that the fact that he has carved them in stone means that, you know, he's absolutely, you know, not going break them or anything like that.”

“Oh, we want to blow that little trumpet now, do we? Yeah, OK, let's get that dog whistle out.”