I am delighted to have won so much support from my colleagues. The Conservative Party can come together - and under my leadership it will.

The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.

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!

The internet is changing all forms of communication, and this definitely includes political communication.

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

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.

[Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed.