My drive comes from my parents and from Westminster.

Westminster has let the whole country down for many years.

I was elected to Westminster when I was 25; I was Britain's youngest MP.

Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey.

The high reputation of Westminster abroad is not entirely reflected at home.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.

I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time.

It is a truth universally unacknowledged at Westminster that there is life after politics.

Westminster is no joke. I took some tough classes there. It prepared me for a tough career.

Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.

When you look at Westminster you think of it as pale, male and stale and I hate that so much.

In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.

The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

We've chosen to stay part of the Westminster system, but we don't want to be a forgotten, sidelined part of it.

I refused to pair with a Tory MP, I refused all foreign junkets and I've never had a drink in a Westminster bar.

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.

Westminster's hardly a billboard for people-centred politics. Given its makeup, the term 'Commons' is pretty ironic, too.

I can cope with politicians now I've had about 40,000 cockroaches tipped over my head. Westminster's going to be no problem.

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

I met Prince Harry at Westminster and I want him to be my new boyfriend, but unfortunately I don't think it is going to happen.

Mice are everywhere at Westminster but many MPs, including me, did not report them because we were afraid of their possible fate.

What we need and have not got at Westminster are real experience and wisdom, possessed by people who do not view politics as a career.

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

There are three main controllers of power here in Britain: the political establishment in Westminster, the BBC (MSM), and the Bank Of England.

I think that political coverage generally comes in on a level that means if you live and breathe Westminster detail and diary, then you get it.

The creation of regional mayors has done little to reduce the sense that all power is concentrated in Westminster, and all investment in London.

Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore.

I went to a branch of the City of Westminster College in Maida Vale to do drama, sociology and English literature. I stayed for three or four months.

Political reporting is too often trivialised, treated as a soap opera based in Westminster, rather than placed in a broader social or economic context.

We will never vote for the renewal of Trident; that's a decision which will fall to be made in the next Westminster parliament. We will never vote for that.

No more top-down politics with Westminster dictating what's right for every community. We must all be partners in designing a better future for our country.

Lisa Nandy is absolutely right that we need to devolve economic power away from Westminster and learn from what Labour councils around the country are doing.

I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous.

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

People don't want to go back to the days, pre-referendum, when the Westminster establishment sidelined and ignored Scotland. They want Scotland's voice to be heard.

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

After 23 years closeted at Westminster, where often all you can see out of the windows are other parliamentary buildings, I appreciate space, and I retired to Dartmoor to find it.

I never thought I would hear Labour and Scottish Nationalist ministers in both Westminster and Holyrood publicly recognise the environmental benefits of good grouse moor management.

If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in Scotland who think, 'You know what, we might be better off independent.'

In the public mind, when they think of politicians, sadly they probably tend to think of men in grey suits doing work behind closed doors at Westminster. I want to get away from the idea.

Westminster is gripped by a fanatical race towards a cliff-edge Brexit and nobody is stopping to think about the impact it would have on the everyday lives of the people we serve as politicians.

I didn't particularly want to go to Westminster - not that there were many seats available or chances for women to get elected. In 1987, Labour sent down 50 MPs, and only one of them was a woman.

Being an MP is quite a strange job, because you do it in two different places. Half the time I'm in Westminster and the other half I'm in my constituency and the job is different in both of them.

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