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I went to Manchester poly for two years.
A tax is something people pay out of income.
I have always been an aviation nerd. I read the magazines.
I think politicians just need to get out in the real world.
I always think there's some value in saying no with a smile.
Newspapers in this country are famously independent of politics.
Businesses, not benefits, are the true ladder of social mobility.
I was so glad when geek went from being a bad word to a good word.
The more the government has centralised, the less houses we have built.
Representing the people of Welwyn Garden City makes me intensely proud.
I think he would care if you were a good person, if indeed there is a god.
Chemo is properly punishing, and it's hard to do things at the usual level.
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.
Extra homes require additional services and councils have to pick up the tab.
I've always been quite driven so it wasn't like the cancer was my wake-up call.
Every part of society should honour the debt we owe those who've served our country.
Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.
Welfare's just one of the problems Labour failed to tackle when they were in government.
Of course homelessness has many causes and the solutions are often frustratingly complex.
It's almost impossible to get the outside world to take any notice of homelessness at all.
Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle revolution.
I think it is absolutely inevitable that Palestinians will, and have to, have their own state.
I believe that enabling former service personnel to travel more easily is the least we can do.
It's vital that communities actually get something back in return for seeing their area developed.
We need to make sure that people are progressively better off in work than they would be on welfare.
Gordon Brown doesn't often spring surprises. He's usually far too cautious to deliver the unexpected.
My personal interest in IVF led me to author two reports into the availability of treatment on the NHS.
Labour have long since forgotten that people work hard to pay their taxes and support our welfare system.
It is ludicrous to suggest that we would ever do things that would end with people living on our streets.
We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force.
We'll always focus on creating a society where people who work hard and want to get on in life are rewarded.
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.
There's no reason why the public shouldn't be able to see how billions of pounds are being spent on their behalf.
Broken Britain isn't just about our indebted economy, it's also about our broken society and broken politics too.
I suspect I have a relationship with my religion which will seem slightly weird to people who don't understand me.
We must formulate policies to allow everyone to have the same opportunities in life and fix our broken society too.
Conservatives don't love business for some abstract reason. We love it because of what it offers our children. Hope.
The idea that squatting in some way offers a reasonable solution to the issue of homelessness is both false and cruel.
Before I went into parliament I used to write business publications, and like many authors wrote under a business name.
My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as many authors do.
While we recognise the challenges councils are facing, we do expect to see them match our commitment to the most vulnerable.
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.
I believe that overall if you want a growing economy what you have got to have is sufficient flexibility to allow that to happen.
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.
I've always been tenacious. I don't let go of things until I think it's fixed. On the other hand I'm a fairly jovial, smiley person.
I think it's absolutely extraordinary that any Conservative MP considered even for one minute installing Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.
If there is a moment when it is possible to intervene in the chaotic life of a homeless person, it is when they turn up as an NHS patient.
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.
Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.