We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal state.

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side.