Best quotes by Hilary Benn on Politics

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• ‟ The thing that worries me more than anything else is losing faith in the capacity of politics to change things. I don't mean scepticism, criticism, querying, but I do mean cynicism.

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• ‟ People are yearning for a politics that tells it straight: that being in government is difficult, that there are tough decisions that we have to make sometimes.

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• ‟ Politics is a process, and there has to be a continual conversation between those who govern and those who give their consent to be governed.

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• ‟ Getting money out of Whitehall and down to the town hall is also essential if we are going to address the crisis of confidence - and alienation - in our politics.

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• ‟ People who feel alienated have little trust in the institutions of our society. This adds to the wider sense of disaffection and makes it more difficult for our politics to work.

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• ‟ We cannot comfort ourselves with the idea that young people will take a greater interest in our politics as they establish themselves in a job, in their communities or in their family life.

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• ‟ We will need to work hard to break the cynicism, talk straight and rebuild trust in politics.

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