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?

I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

The person that takes over needs to have the skills to manage that ... I believe Andrea [Leadsom] has the edge.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

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.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.