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“Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.”
“The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.”
“One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.”
“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.”
“A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.”
“I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.”
“I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.”
“The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union.”
“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.”
“I absolutely think that David Cameron should stay, whatever the result of the referendum, and I hope that he will stay for the full second term which he was elected to serve.”
“In my view, our immigration policy means that we have some people who can come into this country - who we might want to say no to - and others, who we might want to attract, who can't currently come in.”
“I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future.”
“There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.”