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?'

I think that the people of Great Britain have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying - from organisations with acronyms - saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong, because these people - these people - are the same ones who got consistently wrong.

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

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

If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities.