It’s critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.
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 has experience at the highest level of government.
Many more schools can be outstanding.
In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won’t stop me trying.
Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.
In particular, I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European Union could lead us to a better future.
Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you’ve never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.
The big shift in approach on education that we are taking – which is different from what happened before – is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
The accumulation of cultural capital – the acquisition of knowledge – is the key to social mobility.
A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.
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 they have created.
I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.
The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.
I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.
I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it.
Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won’t challenge unfit parents.
I know what it’s like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.
My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy, the European Union.
With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie’s backpack.
Turkey will “inevitably” join the EU in our lifetime unless we vote to leave.