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

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 hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.

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

Adversity makes me hungrier.

Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn’t.

It’s what we live for, to be able to make great illusions.

They don’t seem to be able to rise above these things.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn’t be able to sound like.

just to show people the range that I have, and for them to be able to see the artistry beyond the color.

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations.

I was thrilled to be able to read at three.