I believe in public services.

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.

The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

People know that billions of pounds are wasted. Billions of pounds never get near the families that need it. It is an absolute outrage that hard-working people go out to work every day, get up early, come back late, don't see enough of their families in order to pay taxes to fund vast bureaucracies that are inefficient in order to fund a welfare system which allows too many people to sit for the whole of their lives on out-of-work benefits without going out to look for work.

Autism is a very serious condition.