Francis Maude Quotes

• We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we’re not. Because too often we sound like people who just don’t like contemporary Britain.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in People, Natural, Home

• We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we’re not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

  Francis Maude

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Married, Natural

• We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we’re not. Because too often we’ve sounded like people who wish they hadn’t come here at all.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in People, Natural

• We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow – too narrow.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in Different, Research, Century

• We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today’s Britain. Today we don’t.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in Understand, Need

• They don’t think we’re in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.

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  Tags in Understand, Modern

• The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in Problem, Labour

• The party at its best has always been a modern party.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in Modern, Best

• So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in Problem, Enough, Support

• Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent – yes, that’s right: less than 1 per cent.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in Vote, Right

• Our party’s committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in Crime, Schools

• Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in Succeed, Survive, Great

• Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in Diversity, Uniformity

• Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win.

  Francis Maude

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Average, Understand, Something

• It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in Difficult, Support, Leader

• It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homos*exuality. It’s like disapproving of rain.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in Seemed, Rain

• If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in People, Something

• If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in People, Think

• I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

  Francis Maude

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Change, Excited

• For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people.

  Francis Maude

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  Tags in People, Serious

Francis Maude (21)

Birth:	4th July, 1953
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

About

Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he currently serves as the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, and as a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Horsham. He is the son of the former Conservative cabinet minister Angus Maude.

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