Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

It is already tough to buy a house. But if we are bringing a population the size of Newcastle upon Tyne into the country every single year, if we cannot set limits on the number of people that come and work in Britain, then simple maths says it is going to be even more difficult to get on to the housing ladder.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

The vast majority of young people in Britain are law-abiding citizens making important contributions to their communities.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

Unlike Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, I am not ideologically obsessed with the structure of our rail network; for me it is a matter of practicality.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

The Human Rights Convention was written by Conservatives in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was designed to combat the risk of another Holocaust, and to try to stop people being sent to prison camps without trial.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

The trouble with the SNP is they want power without responsibility. They do not want to take difficult decisions.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

All too often, ambulance-chasing has been simple fraud. People are encouraged to launch a claim for whiplash when no one has been injured. Phone calls ask you to claim for accidents that never happened.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

The state has no right to cast people aside because they are sick or disabled.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

I'm not afraid of making big and sometimes unpopular calls if they're the right thing to do.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

The SNP talks a lot - but they have proved that they cannot deliver.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

Generational disinterest in education means that too many young children lack the push from their parents in early years which can make the difference between success and failure in schools.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

Britain has always been a nation with a strong global focus. We have influenced change and built strong ties all round the world.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

European businesses will want to retain free-trade access to the U.K. - their biggest export market.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

The growth of cycling is a good thing. But good cycling is responsible cycling.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

Take a walk around many of our cities and you will find areas of deprivation, high worklessness and educational failure only yards from areas of prosperity and employment.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

I personally always took the view that, if you look at the case of should a Christian hotel owner have the right to exclude a gay couple from a hotel, I took the view that if it's a question of somebody who's doing a B&B in their own home, that individual should have the right to decide who does and who doesn't come into their own home.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

Are we really going to accept the situation where the government of Lithuania has more power over our trading relationship with the Commonwealth than our government does? That is the reality of the customs union.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

I think it's fair to set limits on housing benefit, so that people on welfare do not end up able to live in better areas than those doing the right thing by finding work.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

We need society, and particularly the victims of crime, to believe justice is being done.

Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling

I want to see prisoners getting support that is every bit as good as that which they would receive from the NHS in the community.