While we recognise the challenges councils are facing, we do expect to see them match our commitment to the most vulnerable.

Representing the people of Welwyn Garden City makes me intensely proud.

An astonishing disengagement from reality is necessary to actually believe there is something sinister about protecting people's homes from invasion through squatting.

Our reasons for criminalising squatting are crystal clear - we want to protect the rights of regular hard-working homeowners against the damage squatters can inflict on their homes, and the distress this causes in their lives.

None of us want to live in a society where people are forced to sleep in shop doorways, on park benches or in dangerous, run-down buildings.

When I was starting a small printing shop in Wembley, I vividly remember coming out of the cinema, realising I had spent the two hours worrying about that month's payroll, rather than focusing on the film.

Businesses create every penny of the wealth we need to pay for our nation's schools, our NHS and our pensions. They are our only path to prosperity.

Business can be hard. But we need more of it.

Labour have long since forgotten that people work hard to pay their taxes and support our welfare system.

We need to make sure that people are progressively better off in work than they would be on welfare.

I believe that investing in welfare is crucial - but I also believe that it only works if you're getting help to those who need it. If you're doing it with no results, it's disastrous.

I was so glad when geek went from being a bad word to a good word.

I've always been quite driven so it wasn't like the cancer was my wake-up call.

I think politicians just need to get out in the real world.

When I was setting up my own business in my early 20s I'd get up early and work every hour I could stay awake.

We'll always focus on creating a society where people who work hard and want to get on in life are rewarded.

Welfare's just one of the problems Labour failed to tackle when they were in government.

Like all parents, I want to give my kids the best start in life.

Every part of society should honour the debt we owe those who've served our country.

I believe that enabling former service personnel to travel more easily is the least we can do.

Having served in the Forces a positive when it comes to applying for jobs. But we know some former service personnel can find the transition difficult.

It is often said there is a great deal of talent in the Conservative Parliamentary Party. This is true, but too many of the brightest and best remain on the backbenches.

No government can maintain the public's confidence if it is outwardly split.

Things don't always go according to plan. That's life and that's government.

The more the government has centralised, the less houses we have built.

I want to reignite the idea of community with a positive conservatism in which the word 'development' has a new connotation, kind of like a social revolution.

One of the cruellest things of all is to have a huge deficit in this country, meaning that everyone's children will be expected to pay back for our debt today. That is unfair as well.

A tax is something people pay out of income.

If you believe in staying at home and looking after your kids, and bringing your kids up, we think it is a fantastic thing to do.

Look, ideally I'd like to have free money to give to everybody. The reality is in government you have to choose and make decisions.

My great hope for my speck of time on this planet would be that I live and die, and that what I leave behind has made some kind of impression and has been for the better in terms of my family and friends and, in my case, public service.

I don't see any reason why society can't function well when people come together in the common interest under our system. In fact that's what the Big Society is all about!

It's impossible to know precisely what constitutes the right house price but I do know that house prices doubling or even tripling over a 10 year period caused a lot of people to find that getting a foot on the housing ladder is near on impossible.

We want councillors and MPs to be more closely involved in housing issues because this will help to strengthen local democracy and accountability.

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

We must formulate policies to allow everyone to have the same opportunities in life and fix our broken society too.

Broken Britain isn't just about our indebted economy, it's also about our broken society and broken politics too.

Newspapers in this country are famously independent of politics.

We need a system where some politicians - who quite rightly respond to the public mood - are prepared to stand up in favour of housebuilding, so I came up with a system that gives local people something they really want in return for building more homes. In our case in Hatfield, it's a new town centre.

People like me - who set up a homelessness foundation, worked with all the homeless charities, authored probably six of seven homelessness papers - don't make changes without thinking through the impact of them on the homeless.

It is ludicrous to suggest that we would ever do things that would end with people living on our streets.

People pay their licence fee in this country because people believe that we should have public service broadcast programming. Of course, there are lots of different ways you could do that.

We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force.

Businesses, not benefits, are the true ladder of social mobility.

Look at the growing middle class in India. Small businesses are not just a source of jobs and prosperity: they are the driving force of social justice too.

I did not have a second job while being an MP.

I see the Conservative party becoming more and more attractive to people from all different backgrounds, particularly because so many of the immigrant communities are people who work hard and get on in life... so I think they are naturally Conservative.

Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle revolution.

I think it's absolutely extraordinary that any Conservative MP considered even for one minute installing Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.

One of my priorities is getting the trains to run on time, and as a commuter myself I understand all too well the frustration caused by endless delays and cancellations.