I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution; it's one of the most important institutions we have.

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.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought...

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing.

I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do.

I think that probably in some areas the Labour message about some of the things that they said we were going to do - and which we weren't going to do - cut through.