In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

I felt we needed someone to lead this country who believed heart and soul in leaving the European Union.

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

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

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.

A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.