We don't see a choice between securing growth and investment and raising human rights issues.

We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy.

One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.

In football, as in politics, resilience pays off.

Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.

I think its important, particularly when you've got young children, to spend some time with them.

I want to see families with lower energy bills.

I think the best solution to this challenge, and I accept there is a challenge with homophobic bullying, is to make sure we get rid of the bullying rather than feeling we have to take kids out of our schools and teach then somewhere else. That would be the best approach.

What's important is that, come the general election, people think the right things of you. They think that you've got the right values and the right policies. And that you're the right kind of person to lead the country.

I don't want to watch 'Newsnight.' I just don't understand those politicians who genuinely want to watch it for pleasure.

I think Britain can be one of the great success stories of the 21st century - we've got the talent, the drive, the connections around the world. But if we vote to Leave, then we lose control. We lose control of our economy, and if you lose control of your economy you lose control of everything. That's not a price worth paying.

It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

I will listen to any argument put to me.

I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.

If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.

In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.