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

Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

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'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers [of migrants] under control in the way that the public want.

If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals.