The common fisheries policy unfortunately led to the devastation of fishing in Scotland. My dad had to close his business. As a result something that he been built up by by grandfather and maintained by my dad disappeared. So my dad suffered.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

I felt we needed someone to lead this country who believed heart and soul in leaving the European Union.

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.

With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.

I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.