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.

I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson.

The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

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.

If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

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

I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.