The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.

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

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

We need a national ambition to build hundreds of thousands of new homes a year, both private and socially-rented - led by someone who will not take no for an answer and who will push for diggers in the ground and homes for all come what may.

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'.

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

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