If you knowingly and willingly embark on criminal behaviour, the consequences of that should be... that you lose some of your benefits under the current system

With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.

In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

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

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.

You cannot stop what the public want. The public want two strong women in the final round and then a woman prime minister and I'm absolutely with that.