When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.

I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it.

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

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.