Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.

In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.

Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.

What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.

Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.

Local people do want to see more police on the streets.