You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

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

Democratic self-government has manifestly brought benefits to India, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, South Korea, and scores of nations all making their way in the world.

Jamie Dimon and J.P. Morgan are contributing millions to the Remain campaign because they do very nicely, thank you, out of the E.U.

Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.

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 inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

The common fisheries policy essentially gave other European Union nations unfettered access to our fish stocks and - I would hope - that if we leave the European Union, we can once more see the ports of Peterborough and Fraserhead and Grimsby flourishing, because we will take back control of our territorial waters.

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

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

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 sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

I think the people in this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.

We have created a ministry of the family to work on fertility, nurseries, on a fiscal system which takes large families into account.

A country which does not create children is destined to die.

Soros wants to fill Italy and Europe with migrants.

Let the French ministers take care of France; we will take care of Italy!

An Italy that collects lower taxes, that has well-defined times for the court proceedings, and that has less bureaucracy is good news that reassures the markets.

The defense of our values and our identity requires regulation of the Islamic presence and Islamic organizations in Italy.

The only antidote to racism - and the Italians are anything but racist - is to return to a respect for laws and regulations and monitor who enters and who leaves this country.

The so-called 'far right' defends the working class far more than the left does.

I'm a federalist.

I tell the truth and they call me a fascist, a racist, an ugly, dirty, nasty, xenophobic populist.

We need a mass cleansing, street by street, piazza by piazza, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

Italian ports are no longer at the disposal of traffickers.

If Macron thinks there is no immigration crisis in Italy, he should open his doors to the 9,000 migrants France agreed to welcome from Italy in accordance with signed European agreements.