John Hutton Quotes

United Kingdom, Politician
May 6, 1955

John Matthew Patrick Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, PC is a British Labour politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Barrow and Furness from 1992 to 2010 and served in a number of Cabinet offices, including Defence Secretary and Business Secretary. He is now the Chairman of the Royal United Services Institute.

From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.

John Hutton
- Choice
- Lives
- Empowers
There is no such thing as free regulation.

John Hutton
- Free
- Thing
- Regulation

Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?

John Hutton
- Choice
- Services
- Local
For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.

John Hutton
As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better.

John Hutton
- Work
- Challenge
- Europe
My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.

John Hutton
So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure.

John Hutton
Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking.

John Hutton
- Change
- Economic
- Embrace

More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.

John Hutton
Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.

John Hutton
- Business
- Road
- Regulation