In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've got to buck that trend

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've got to buck that trend

We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.