Francis Maude
Francis Maude
Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, Baron Maude of Horsham, PCis a British Conservative politician, who served over 25 years on the front bench in the House of Commons, including posts as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster-General, as well as Member of Parliament representing Horsham in Sussex, and then as Baron Maude of Horsham as Minister of State for Trade and Investment until April 2016...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 July 1953
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Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win.
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Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.
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We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow.
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We recognize that the current arrangements have to change. The existence and extent of the loans has always been declared.
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Some of that money may well have been from overseas sources.
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I want to make it very open. We've researched the practicalities and there are lots of innovative ways of doing it that don't cost an arm and a leg. We've looked to see if there's a way of having a very open primary election that doesn't kill us financially.
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If you draw a line through Birmingham we lost support above that line and we lost support among voters under 35 so we are now third in that group.
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David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today
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We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
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So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.
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The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.
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Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.
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I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.
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If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.