The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

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

As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

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.

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

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.