It’s estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy. – Lucy Powell
What a privilege and honour it has been to be part of seven years of magic in a tent – ‘The Great British Bake Off.’ – Mary Berry
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. – Joseph Jacobs
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. – Mahatma Gandhi
When I do watch things, they tend to be a lot of comedies. I actually like some of the British comedy series. But, on the whole, I’m not a huge viewer of anything. – Lucy Griffiths
When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999. – Jamie Bamber
I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London. – Leslie Caron
Let everyone leave all the guns – British guns and Irish guns – outside the door. – Martin McGuinness
There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market. – Joseph Hume
The only difference between the Bel Air of the ’90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American. – Lorna Luft
When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn’t be any press without the censorship. – Kate Adie
The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority. – Maajid Nawaz
Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened. – Jim Gerlach
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste. – Linton Kwesi Johnson
Before British title fights, I’ve played football on a Saturday before; it’s silly as it is. – Liam Smith
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. – Robert Trout
I’ve never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other. – Robert Fisk
At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It’s extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. – Salman Rushdie
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium. – Robert Trout
The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration. – Samuel P. Huntington
