“I have felt the force of what governments can do. I remember my elder ...” — Jess Phillips Quote

“I have felt the force of what governments can do. I remember my elder son being in the first cohort of kids who got a free nursery place, I remember the palliative care my mother got at home as I watched her die.”

“My childhood dream was to be prime minister.”

“The NHS was hard to deliver, so was the minimum wage. It's time now - we need to have a proper conversation about how much is the individual cost, how much is the burden that we're all going to share together, and how much are we going to put on older adults now versus a future system like national insurance.”

“Seventy is beautiful for me. I am truly, at last, an elder.”

“Nitish Babu is a friend of mine and he always treats me like his elder brother. I also respect him a lot.”

“Ground elder, introduced by the Romans as a vegetable, is difficult to get rid of because it regrows from the smallest trace of root.”