Francis Maude

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. ↗

— Francis Maude

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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. ↗

— Francis Maude

#good #good mother #home #like #married

But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that. ↗

— Francis Maude

#country #get #other #parties #people

For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people. ↗

— Francis Maude

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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. ↗

— Francis Maude

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If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us. ↗

— Francis Maude

#people #right #think #trust #try

If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change. ↗

— Francis Maude

#got #people #then #think #us

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party. ↗

— Francis Maude

#difficult #does #i #i think #leader

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. ↗

— Francis Maude

#average #children #grandchildren #maligned #members

Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity. ↗

— Francis Maude

#diversity #our #party #uniformity