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

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.

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.

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

One of the things I know about the European Union is that the European Union can destroy jobs.