“I agree. It is vital we keep taxes low and the size of the state in check, to allow people to spend more of their own money.”

All of my parents’ friends worked in public sector jobs.

We spent a lot of time talking about politics at home. We went to the camp at Greenham Common.

If we just had an election which is a kind of desiccated calculation, obviously I think the Conservatives have the best economic plans, but it is about more than that. It is about the overall person.

Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial.

We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.

The US is our largest trading partner and increasing transatlantic trade can help our economies bounce back from the economic challenge posed by coronavirus.

If John McDonnell nationalised whole industries, they would be quickly taken over by bureaucrats more concerned about their careers than about customers.

We’re trendsetters, first to welcome brilliant inventions into our lives, from the microwave meal to Instagram.

I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.

I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.

And I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It’s now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.

What you notice in French nurseries is just how calm they are. All of their classes are structured and led by teachers. It’s a requirement.

I didn’t become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country…

Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.

We don’t know what’s around the corner – and we must do everything to ensure we get our country’s debts down, building our resilience so we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past.

Britain has always been at its most successful when it’s a trading nation.

When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on “What’s the next piece I’m going to write, or draw, that’ll pay this month’s rent?” And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.

There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.

Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They’re stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.

I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

I think friends are an extension of you and I always say, check out a persons five immediate friends and you’ll know everything about them.

I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.