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

It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.

There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

I was a teenage godmother.

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.