Michael Gove

“I am in favour of migration; I simply want to control the numbers.”

“As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.”

“The Government wants to give young people from every community the chance to learn about the heroism and sacrifice of our great-grandparents, which is why we are organising visits to the battlefields of the Western Front.”

“I put my country and my principles first.”

“I'm one of many who have seen their parents and their friends lose their jobs, lose their income, lose their livelihood because of the European Union.”

“I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement.”

“I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege.”

“I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive.”

“I have a brother-in-law who lives in Spain.”

“I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.”

“Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn't contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics.”

“I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.”

“When we vote to leave, I think a majority of people in Scotland will also vote to leave as well.”

“Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.”

“What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda.”

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

“The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive.”

“Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.”

“I think, instead of the pessimism of the Remain campaign, we have an opportunity to think of the next generation. If we have faith in their talent, in their generosity, in their hard work, we can, if we leave the E.U., ensure the next generation makes this country once more truly great.”

“I sometimes think that the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George R.R. Martin and Stephen King - Brexit would mean a combination of 'A Feast for Crows' and 'Misery.'”