Elections and party politics

“I am very curious about the reticence of Andy Burnham to say too much, and I think Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State as well, has also said that. I don't want to say too much. They've hinted very strongly. Trump as well, yeah.”

“If you also, I mean, we're going to have a really dangerous problem very shortly when all these new prisoners are released”

“I think a lot of people in Labour have not liked the welfare versus warfare dichotomy, but also a lot of them don't like the idea of cutting welfare things for the NHS and spending it on defence.”

“it's your party that makes us feel miserable, frustrated, and exhausted, and we get no time off from you.”

“Like, he's a Brit popper, he's cool, it's all about the vibes. But actually, underneath it, there's a very hard-faced, sour socialism. He will go hard left, this guy, he will.”

“You create the conditions for ordinary people to get going.”

“she's stupid even by Cabinet standards. That's saying something. But this authoritarian has launched a very serious attack on free speech”

“I think in many ways politics just seems so volatile right now”

“of feel like we're in a moment where everyone's sort of going, we love Big Brother, we love Big Brother, come in and do this for us.”

“they're grasping what the problem is and actually the urgency of it and actually how the public see it, because that is first and foremost how the public see it as a security issue.”

“I know it's only banknotes, but if you're going to do something that's representative of Britain, it seems like these are the people that you would choose, like Churchill, Alan Turing, Jane Austen.”

“I think Keir Starmer just has absolutely no feeling for what is going on in the country. I think they have been thinking up until now that they haven't been left wing enough.”

“a lot of people have sort of lost faith in the asylum system to adjudicate these claims properly”

“The successful models to follow are the US and Australia. Those work, but they will not do them because it's labour, right? It's the human rights brigade.”

“it is completely logical and common sense to say that British citizens should get priority over non-citizens”

“They just speak in rhetoric, but they're not willing to confront any of the structural issues that are preventing this from happening.”

“when people are bringing up these concerns saying, hey, you know, there's real problems with the type of immigration we've had. There are security concerns. They also want to have deeper discussions about maybe culture and values and belonging.”