Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.

I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.

One of the things I know about the European Union is that the European Union can destroy jobs.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

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.