“I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were Tories and who believed in what I believed in was an eye-opener.”

Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.

In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we’ve just got all-or-nothing.

I feel I’ve come home at the Treasury.

One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.

I love Britain. It really worries me, the prospect of Ed Miliband propped up by Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP and what that could do to our country. It’s absolutely right that we highlight to voters that potential risk.

Women need to be less squeamish about making money.

Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.

Traditionally, Conservatives have argued that low taxes are a route to self-determination.

I think every woman in this country will understand what it means to be mansplained to. It happens in everyday life – you know, if you go into a shop, or you’re talking about finance.

And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn’t say the ones at my school were less capable. They could’ve been there.

People won’t want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain.

The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.

We need to give people another option from 16-18. Not everyone is going to want to become a rocket scientist but that doesn’t mean that maths isn’t extremely useful.

In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.

We have lots of roadside stands in Norfolk where you can just pick up vegetables that people have grown in their garden and put the money in a pot.

It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.

Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?’

Anyone who puts 110% into their work deserves as much success as they can get.

This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.

I thought anything might happen if I wasn’t vigilant. I didn’t eat. I didn’t go out. I didn’t want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul.

If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.

I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life.