Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also has experience at the highest level of government.

If we leave the European Union, yes there will be bumps in the road, inevitably, but we will be in a better position to deal with them.

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

In order to be able to reduce migration we need to be outside the European Union.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

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.