“I feel I’m fortunate compared with a lot of parents in being able to afford a nanny but, you know, it’s expensive.”

It’s almost 10 years since the 2008 crisis, but we all still remember the consequences of ignoring threats to the public finances.

In order to retain our position as the dynamic duo of the world, it’s vital that in the UK and US we keep opportunities open for new people and new ideas. And we can never allow our economies to get furred up.

From better access to American markets for our beef and lamb farmers, to cutting tariffs on dairy products like cheese, which are up to 17 per cent, there are significant opportunities for UK farming.

When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme.

Except this time, there will be no choice and nowhere to turn when things go wrong.

I admire Peter Mandleson’s chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.

Free-flow play is not compulsory, but there is a belief across lots of nurseries that it is.

Leaving the European Union really does give us a chance as a country to become more outward-looking, to become more competitive, and to deepen our links with our partners right across the world.

Taking control of our laws border and money, run not by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Brussels but by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Britain. That ladies and gentlemen is a dream worth fighting for.

What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.

Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don’t have enough people of a certain group.

The free market is fundamentally humane and democratic, driven by ideas and millions of individual choices about what to do with our money which defy those who benefit from the status quo.

I’m a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.

Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it’s the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.

It’s a merger of home life and work life. They aren’t that separate, I must confess, and my daughters know an awful lot about childcare reform now because of it.

I am delighted to be at the heart of this team of radical reformers in Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Nick Boles and many others. It’s a team I believe will deliver the change Britain needs.

I feel so often that depression is a signal of more that wants to be expressed within you. There is an innate impulse in everyone to express more of who they truly are, and you get depressed when you don’t feel you’re able to do that.

Without encryption, you and I wouldn’t be able to do our banking online.

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

I think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.

George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing ‘ER,’ and he’s able to parlay that into films. God willing, I’ll be up there in a few years.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.