I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020.

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

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

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.

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.

Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond logic and reaches deep into the darker recesses of the European soul. In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.