Francis Maude Thinking Quotations

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.

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