Quotes by Jo Johnson - Page 1

I grew up in Brussels.
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Brussels
Up Grew
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You really don't throw a ministerial job away lightly.
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Lightly
Ministerial
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We are leaving the E.U. But we have no idea where we are going.
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No Idea
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I want to make it very-very clear that Indian students are warmly welcome to U.K.
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Welcome
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There is no place in world where you can do higher education better than in the UK.
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Higher Education
Education World Better
Uk
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Free movement of people makes it easier for our universities to attract the best talent.
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Attract
Universities
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We need to confront our real problems, not indulge in false solutions that make them worse.
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Indulge
Real Problems
Solutions
Confront
False
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It's been an honour to represent Orpington for 9 years & to serve as a minister under three PMs.
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Honour
Minister
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Brexit has divided the country. It has divided political parties. And it has divided families too.
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Divided
Political Parties
Brexit
Parties
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There is no better system in the world than the U.K. education system that offers better value for money.
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Offers
Education Money World
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Some Brexiteers are passionate defenders of the benefits of immigration. Others just can't wait to slam the doors shut.
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Defenders
Doors
Immigration
Slam
Shut
The Doors
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As the Bank of England has noted, Brexit is a unique experiment in the reimposition of protectionist barriers to trade.
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Barriers
Bank
Brexit
Experiment
Noted
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There is no precedent of an advanced economy withdrawing from a trade agreement as deep and as complex as the European Union.
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Agreement
European Union
Precedent
Withdrawing
Advanced
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Leadership involves building an esprit de corps, the creation of a sense of purpose in pursuit of noble and clear objectives.
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Creation
Noble
Objectives
Pursuit
Corps
Involves
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No one voted for a Brexit that will tie us to the E.U.'s customs rules and prevent us striking meaningful trade deals of our own.
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Customs
Deals
Meaningful
Brexit
Prevent
Striking
Tie
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Suspension of disbelief is a necessary ingredient in all storytelling. So it has been with the government's narrative that it is delivering Brexit.
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Delivering
Disbelief
Narrative
Suspension
Brexit
Ingredient
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As the U.K.'s position as a global financial services hub weakens, our competitors will lose no time in attracting jobs in services from our shores.
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Jobs
Competitors
Financial
Financial Services
Hub
Position
Attracting
Global
Lose
No Time
Services
Shores
Weakens
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It is of course true that many of our universities are large and complex organisations, requiring highly skilled individuals to run them effectively.
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Effectively
Organisations
Requiring
Skilled
Universities
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Given that the reality of Brexit has turned out to be so far from what was once promised, the democratic thing to do is to give the public the final say.
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Brexit
Promised
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The Government has boxed itself in by trying to codge together this weird fake Brexit in the hope of committing people to somehow delivering on the referendum result.
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Delivering
Fake
Boxed
Brexit
Committing
Referendum
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When we were told Brexit meant taking back powers for Parliament, no one told my constituents this meant the French parliament and the German parliament, not our own.
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Parliament
German
Brexit
Powers
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If we are serious about Global Britain, we must recognise that international students bring huge benefits to our universities, our local economies and our soft power.
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Recognise
Universities
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The case for Brexit was made on rhetorical flourishes and promises and bluster. A lot of promises on which people voted have turned out to be undeliverable. It was a false prospectus.
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Rhetorical
Brexit
False
Flourishes
Promises
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Certainly, I know from my own work at the Department of Transport the potential chaos that will follow a 'no deal' Brexit. It will cause disruption, delay and deep damage to our economy.
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Chaos
Damage
Delay
Department
Disruption
Economy
Transport
Work Will Know
Brexit
Cause
Certainly
Follow
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Although I voted Remain, I have desperately wanted the Government, in which I have been proud to serve, to make a success of Brexit: to reunite our country, our party and, yes, my family too.
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Brexit
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I have spent more time thinking about European issues than even I can imagine - so many years thinking about Britain and the way our influence around the world was amplified through the European Union.
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European Union
Time Thinking World
Amplified
So Many Years
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A vote to leave would be a leap into the dark that would put our status as a science superpower at risk. That is why I will be joining Boris in making a positive case for Britain's future in a reformed E.U.
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Britain
Dark
Joining
Leap
Risk
Vote
Case
Reformed
Status
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I have a wonderful family. My father is a brilliant father, and my mother a brilliant person who had mental-health issues, but has been wonderfully creative throughout her life. They couldn't have been more supportive.
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Supportive
Life Family Father
Wonderfully
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I challenge the Government to come clean on the cost of Brexit. The reason they can't look us in the eye, it's because they know this will leave us worse off and with less control. It's a gross abuse of civil service impartiality.
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Abuse
Civil Service
Gross
Impartiality
Brexit
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The day after Britain voted to leave the European Union, I woke up determined to make a success of Brexit. I was surprised by how quickly I went to acceptance of the result, without passing through any of the prior stages of grief.
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Acceptance
Determined
European Union
Grief
Passing
Brexit
Prior
Stages
Woke
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The pattern shows that whenever countries try to construct access to the single market... it has required freedom of movement and massive contributions to the E.U. budget, and no role in any decision making processes that frame the rules.
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Budget
Construct
Frame
Pattern
Processes
Required
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What is so clearly in the national interest is everything the government is doing in its strong, one nation domestic policy agenda: more police on the streets, more doctors and nurses in our hospitals, a welcoming face to scientists and international students.
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Doctors
Domestic Policy
Hospitals
Streets
Agenda
Domestic
National Interest
Nurses
One Nation
Scientists
Welcoming
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While we have agreed to pay the E.U. tens of billions of pounds in the Withdrawal Agreement, the Political Declaration that aimed to set out the principles for this future negotiation is a document deliberately vague to allow it to mean all things to all people.
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Billions
Declaration
Negotiation
Principles
Withdrawal
Agreed
Future Political People
All People
Deliberately
Document
Tens
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When the U.K. and India collaborate, there is force multiplier, which is very-very strong. The force multiplier with India is much stronger than with many other countries. We get much greater impact and valued research papers when British and Indian scientists co-operate.
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Other Countries
Papers
Valued
Scientists
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Brexit was meant to be about taking back control, we are ceding control; it was meant to be about trade deals, we are not going to have any meaningful trade deals; it was meant to be about having a turbo-charged tiger economy on the edge of Europe, we are going to be bound by the common rule book that we won't have a hand in shaping.
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Deals
Economy
Europe
Meaningful
Meant To Be
Bound
Brexit
Rule
Rule Book
Shaping
Tiger
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