Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

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.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.