This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.

The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.

Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

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.

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.