Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

There is nothing people can throw at me to say: Do this, do that.

What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.