The Tory Party only talks to Brexiteers. It almost demonises… It comes across as dismissive of those who are not. Sam Gyimah Read Quote
Every election cycle there has been some manoeuvre against me, so at some level I am used to it. Sam Gyimah Read Quote
The astonishing thing for me is that I had a career before politics and I never thought about my colour. Sam Gyimah Read Quote
As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn’t enjoy it at the time but she always used to say that the inheritance she was going to leave us was a good education. Sam Gyimah Read Quote
I was born in the UK and brought up by my single mother in Ghana, where being black was unexceptional. As an adult, I learnt to succeed in white Britain, going from a state sixth form, to Oxford university, to a well-paid job in the City, to becoming the first black Conservative MP to attend the cabinet. Sam Gyimah Read Quote
I am instinctively wary of identity politics. Ultimately, no two black men are the same, any more than two white men are the same. Sam Gyimah Read Quote
The more painful incidents of racism I chose to forget, to suffer in silence, or use humour to deflect rather than confront. I didn’t want to be the angry black man. Sam Gyimah Read Quote
Westminster is gripped by a fanatical race towards a cliff-edge Brexit and nobody is stopping to think about the impact it would have on the everyday lives of the people we serve as politicians. Sam Gyimah Read Quote
Much of what we buy relies on products from the EU – purchases that British importers make in euros. Sam Gyimah Read Quote
