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Archive for September, 2011

Sep 30

Evening Standard Interview: I’ll do whatever it takes to stop Livingstone winning says Baroness Warsi

Published in The Evening Standard, Friday 30th September 2011

By Joe Murphy, Political Editor

As the Tories gather in Manchester tomorrow, Sayeeda Warsi will be reading children’s stories.

More specifically, she will be creating audio books for visually impaired children and bullying her Cabinet colleagues, including David Cameron, to do the same.

“It only takes 15 minutes and for some young kids it’s their only access to stories,” she bubbles in her broad Yorkshire accent.

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Sep 30

Sayeeda Warsi: Five ideas for David Cameron

Published in the FT, Satuday 30th September 2011

Baroness Warsi

A BIGGER SAY ON POLICY FOR CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS

 As a Party, we’ve got to keep listening to our volunteers and give them a bigger role in the political process. Thanks to our new, revitalised Conservative Policy Forum, we’ve now given the grassroots a much stronger voice on policy and we’re going to make sure that voice is listened to and really counts. There’s a huge amount of passion, expertise and thinking going on in our grassroots – after all, most people become party members because they want to voice their views. So I want us to harness that thinking as we look ahead to the big policy challenges of 2015 and beyond.

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Sep 18

Sayeeda Warsi: Strikes are a slap in the face to hard working people in Britain

The Daily Star Sunday, Sunday 18th September 2011

These strikes are a slap in the face to hard working people in Britain.

At a time when we are working flat out to bring Labour’s reckless spending under control, these walkouts will bring disruption and damage to our economy.

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