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

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.

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

I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.

Let me first of all congratulate both of the candidates who have made it through - both Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom are formidable politicians and they have fought great campaigns and they deserve to be in the final two.

One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.

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.