I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson..

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with in….

It's often the case that successful people invite criticism..

For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek.

I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals..

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sym….

I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead..

I will take all the steps necessary to give the NHS at least another £100million per week by 2020..

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture..

The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision..

I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can ch….

Turkey will "inevitably" join the EU in our lifetime unless we vote to leave..

I think that the people of Great Britain have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying - from organisations with acronyms - sayi….

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which ….

You know, you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and headteachers should. It's within their rights, it….

I think that what we have heard from the Remain campaign throughout this whole referendum have been dire warnings of the terrible consequences of the….

Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also ha….

Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond ….

The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the po….

I think that the message I have of optimism and hope about Britain's bright future outside the European Union is shared by many Conservative members ….

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning..