Leaving the E.U. is an opportunity for our country.

I believe Jeremy Corbyn getting his hands on power is a risk we cannot afford to take.

We know that children living in a household with someone in work do better in school, have better educational attainment, and are more likely to have a job later in life than children growing up in a home where no one works.

I believe most people in their life will fall upon tough times at some point.

I've met people at the top of companies like Accenture who started off in McDonald's.

This is how I am. I'm happy with my friends, my family, my job.

I've had other friends who had such a burning desire to have children: they have this biological ticking clock. I don't know what happened to mine. Nobody ever wound it up.

I always thought, as I was growing up, that I'd be married with children. That hasn't happened.

When I was growing up, my parents put money into food, utility bills, and the mortgage.

First and foremost, we have to ensure that we have to get our own kids ready for work so that employers want to take them on.

We never have been closed to immigration.

I come from a background where people have had their own business, where it has been incredibly tough for a long period of time, and you are only as good as the last contract you have got, as the last job you have done, where the notion of a precarious existence does exist, as it does for a lot of people.

That's what you've got to be to be an MP: a problem solver. How can I help you? How can I engage? What do you need?

I guess, as a young girl growing up in Liverpool in the '80s, when unemployment was high, my ideal job would have been to have been Minister for Employment to see, can you solve these problems? Can you get people into work?

I want to give the message that anyone can succeed given the opportunity.

Most people fall upon tough times at some point.

What you've seen from the 1980s, particularly in this country, is far fewer people doing Saturday jobs and doing jobs after school.

Where I come from, from a very different point of view, it's a Labour heartland, it's a trade union heartland, and I'll have a very personal campaign against me there.

What I like to see is people like Beyonce. Here is a woman who is bling-a-ding. Not only does she look like that and act like that - I've seen her perform, and I was blown away - but she is at the top of her profession.

Has my accent held me back? I don't believe it has at all. I think it can be a colourful accent.

There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.

When I became minister for employment, that was my ideal job because it meant I was able to reflect on what I saw growing up and actually try to change it.

Life is not a theoretical problem to be solved in class.

Life is about hard work and getting on with things.