Philip Hammond Quotes

I'm not going to do anything that sees a Tory government be likely.

I was nervous about a Corbyn government, although I would have supported it because a lot of the policies were good. I was far more nervous of a Conservative government but here it is, we've just got to deal with it.

I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.

I remember being told after the 1992 general election that Labour could never win a majority in Britain ever again.

People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure.

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.

When I was a boy during Thatcher, you watched elections and wept in disbelief as the whole country turned blue, Scotland turned red, and we still got the Tories.

Vote Labor and you can build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher, was a precursor to the American Tea Party.

Once upon a time - in the days of Margaret Thatcher and John Major - I would have rejoiced in a Conservative Party landslide in Britain. But now, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's victory fills me with fear and foreboding.

I want to be part of something that can offer British people something to vote for.

I was out of the U.K. as a care-free, fun-loving student for much of Mrs. Thatcher's time in Downing Street, and as I didn't own a television in New York, never read the newspapers, and am old enough to have lived before the Internet, she is a shadowy figure in my memory.

Boris Johnson is nothing like Winston Churchill.

Margaret Thatcher always felt like an outsider in her party.

We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time.

John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975.

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

Whether it was in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher, the 1950s under Churchill and Macmillan or in the early days of the Cameron administration, when our party has spoken for the people we have won.

There was a time when a certain type of Tory could have been relied on to swing from the chandeliers in defence of the rights of freeborn Britons. I suppose a lot of those Tories would have been what you might call 'one-nation Tories.' That tradition has died in the Conservative party.

If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.