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?'

It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in 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.

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

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'.

The promise to leave the European Union, end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy. With my leadership, it will be delivered.

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