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.

They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.

I will put my heart and soul into making sure that the care your son or daughter or mum or dad receives is the same I would want for my own family.

We need a national ambition to build hundreds of thousands of new homes a year, both private and socially-rented - led by someone who will not take no for an answer and who will push for diggers in the ground and homes for all come what may.

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.