Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

All I can say to the others is, 'Look out, we're on our way.

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

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

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.