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

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

One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

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.

I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.

The common fisheries policy unfortunately led to the devastation of fishing in Scotland. My dad had to close his business. As a result something that he been built up by by grandfather and maintained by my dad disappeared. So my dad suffered.