“In Westminster, we can sometimes forget just how much the public hate their money being wasted.”

Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that around, made a premium on doing maths.

I’ve been anxious but not depressed. I’m an incorrigible optimist.

I’m saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries.

Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.

People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that’s human.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.

Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.

I campaigned for the UK to stay in the European Union but the country chose a different path.

Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.

I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.

Kitchen-table start-ups and local entrepreneurs will find they have major new opportunities opened to them, as they gain easier and quicker access for their goods and services into one of the world’s largest markets.

I want people to buy British because it’s the tastiest food and the most exciting food.

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.

I think we’ve got caught up in the weeds of Brexit, and… the approach has been to try and compromise and split the difference. And that to me is not what Brexit is about.

It’s vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country’s opportunities are open to everyone – big or small, north or south, man or woman.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.

If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.