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.

Whoever the next prime minister of this country will be, it will be a female prime minister and a female prime minister who has formidable skills and I know whichever one of the two wins they will lead this country well.

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.

I will do everything that is required in order to bring immigration down to a level that is manageable, that the public believe is right.

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

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.

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.