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

You know, you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and headteachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession.

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.

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

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it.