Grant Shapps

When Welwyn Garden City was planned, the workers homes were placed in the east, downwind from the factories in the middle, whilst the bosses got the larger westside homes in Handside. This sort of social engineering, including the absence of a pub, would not be acceptable today.

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My great hope for my speck of time on this planet would be that I live and die, and that what I leave behind has made some kind of impression and has been for the better in terms of my family and friends and, in my case, public service.

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Extra homes require additional services and councils have to pick up the tab.

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I've always been tenacious. I don't let go of things until I think it's fixed. On the other hand I'm a fairly jovial, smiley person.

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Incredibly, a typical town hall official spends 85% of their time satisfying ministers in Whitehall and a puny 15% of the day for local residents. We believe that this relationship is upside down.

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I've always thought that the level of homelessness in society is likely to be a truer measure of how civilised we are then almost any other factor.

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Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle revolution.

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I've always been quite driven so it wasn't like the cancer was my wake-up call.

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I have probably become a lot more Zionist than I used to be. Jews have a history of being persecuted over a long, long period of time so I think it is absolutely right to have a country that is a Jewish state.

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Quotes by Grant Shapps