If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.