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Esther McVey
British
Politician
Born:
Oct 24
,
1967
First
Job
Life
People
Work
You
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The people I believed in were people like William Lever, the great philanthropic industrialist - self-made men who realised anyone could achieve.
Esther McVey
Great
People
Achieve
Men
William
Could
Like
Self-Made
Were
Anyone
Realised
Who
Believed
Lever
Philanthropic
Life is about hard work and getting on with things.
Esther McVey
Life
Work
Hard Work
About
Getting
Hard
Things
Life is not a theoretical problem to be solved in class.
Esther McVey
Life
Class
Problem
Solved
Theoretical
When I became minister for employment, that was my ideal job because it meant I was able to reflect on what I saw growing up and actually try to change it.
Esther McVey
Change
Try
Job
Reflect
Saw
Minister
Able
Ideal
Employment
Became
Because
Up
Meant
Growing
Growing Up
Actually
There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.
Esther McVey
People
Mine
Host
Like
Accent
Got
West
Wales
North
Whether
Whole
Has my accent held me back? I don't believe it has at all. I think it can be a colourful accent.
Esther McVey
Me
Believe
Think
Back
Accent
Held
Where I come from, from a very different point of view, it's a Labour heartland, it's a trade union heartland, and I'll have a very personal campaign against me there.
Esther McVey
Me
Point
Point Of View
Come
Trade
Trade Union
Campaign
Very
Labour
Personal
Where
Different
Against
View
Union
What you've seen from the 1980s, particularly in this country, is far fewer people doing Saturday jobs and doing jobs after school.
Esther McVey
You
People
School
Seen
Country
Jobs
Particularly
Doing
Fewer
After
After-School
Far
Saturday
I want to give the message that anyone can succeed given the opportunity.
Esther McVey
Opportunity
Give
Given
Message
Want
Anyone
Succeed
That's what you've got to be to be an MP: a problem solver. How can I help you? How can I engage? What do you need?
Esther McVey
You
Problem
Solver
Got
How
Engage
Help
Need
If people are coming into the country to add an extra dimension, to bring skills and expertise with them, we have always been open to that.
Esther McVey
People
Country
Extra
Add
Dimension
Open
Always
Coming
Been
Expertise
Them
Skills
Bring
First and foremost, we have to ensure that we have to get our own kids ready for work so that employers want to take them on.
Esther McVey
Work
First
Own
Our
Ensure
Kids
Take
Employers
Ready
Foremost
Get
Want
Them
When I was growing up, my parents put money into food, utility bills, and the mortgage.
Esther McVey
Food
Money
Parents
Put
Mortgage
Up
Bills
Growing
Utility
Growing Up
I've had other friends who had such a burning desire to have children: they have this biological ticking clock. I don't know what happened to mine. Nobody ever wound it up.
Esther McVey
Other
Mine
Wound
Had
Nobody
Know
Ticking
Clock
Up
Friends
Children
Happened
Burning
Burning Desire
Who
Ever
Biological
Desire
This is how I am. I'm happy with my friends, my family, my job.
Esther McVey
Family
Happy
Job
How
Am
Friends
We know that children living in a household with someone in work do better in school, have better educational attainment, and are more likely to have a job later in life than children growing up in a home where no one works.
Esther McVey
Life
Work
Home
Better
School
Job
Living
Later
Someone
More
Attainment
No-One
Know
Likely
Household
Educational
Up
Than
Where
Children
Works
Growing
Growing Up
Leaving the E.U. is an opportunity for our country.
Esther McVey
Opportunity
Country
Our
Leaving
When we cannot find enough extra money for policing, yet we are having huge sums to other countries in aid, it is time to start a serious conversation.
Esther McVey
Time
Conversation
Money
Extra
Aid
Other
Enough
Other Countries
Sums
We Cannot
Find
Having
Countries
Policing
Huge
Cannot
Serious
Start
It's important to know what you can do and what you can't.
Esther McVey
You
Important
Know
David Cameron, and before him Iain Duncan Smith, went out of their way to attract women into the party. Yes, we need to sell politics to more women, but quotas are not the way forward. You set a quota, what is the right quota? What is the wrong quota?
Esther McVey
Politics
You
Women
Party
Before
Way
Out
More
David
David Cameron
Wrong
Attract
Him
Smith
Cameron
Sell
Yes
Quota
Forward
Right
Need
Set
People shouldn't have to lose their accents to get a fair crack at the whip at a job or move up within a sector or industry.
Esther McVey
People
Job
Lose
Sector
Fair
Industry
Accents
Within
Up
Crack
Get
Move
Whip
Politics is all about trust. Trust is like the soul: once gone, it never returns.
Esther McVey
Politics
Soul
Trust
Gone
Once
About
Never
Like
Returns
Part of the Brexit debate was about control, having a say over our laws and money and letting politicians stand up for what the people voted for, not signing away our sovereignty.
Esther McVey
People
Money
Debate
Control
Politicians
Our
Say
Signing
About
Laws
Having
Part
Over
Voted
Up
Sovereignty
Stand
Stand Up
Brexit
Away
Letting
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