No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities.

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.

Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.

I think it's time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going to take back control.'