Nicky Morgan

“The honest truth in life is that you never appreciate what you've got until you've lost it.”

“At school, girls sometimes find it hard to speak up.”

“It is vital to understand what voters expect from Brexit, especially given the lack of a leave manifesto.”

“We have to be ambitious for our young people.”

“One of the roles of the Treasury committee is to look under the bonnet of the financial services sector to shine a light on any of its shortcomings.”

“Transparency concentrates minds.”

“I think sometimes people will look at the 'X Factor' winners or they will look at reality TV shows and they will think actually you can have instant success, fame, money overnight.”

“Every child is entitled to an academic education. But resilience, stickability, self-esteem - they need these things, too, and even more than the privately educated.”

“We have seen at first hand that upholding the Good Friday Agreement while also avoiding a hard border in Ireland is the key to unblocking the Brexit logjam.”

“If we want to make the most of half of our workforce, if we want to eliminate the gender pay gap and we want that same half of the workforce to succeed in jobs that boost our economy, we must make sure that teenage girls don't feel, and are certainly not told, that certain subjects are the preserve of men.”

“One of the most depressing aspects of the whole Brexit debate has been the rush to instant judgment about the motives of MPs and others and the readiness to accuse others of treachery or betrayal.”

“Many Conservatives believe that our conference needs to show the Conservatives retain a reputation for competence, a strong commitment to market economics and how that benefits everyone, and how Brexit is not going to drag us to a point where a Corbyn-led government becomes a reality.”

“I was a Thatcherite. But to be fair, I probably have changed my outlook.”

“We make no apology for being bold and ambitious.”

“People say if you're being bullied don't go online. But we don't tell a women not to walk the streets.”

“I don't want to develop a reputation for being difficult about absolutely everything and everyone.”

“Democratic debate must never end.”

“I don't think many women would disagree that it's a good thing that under E.U. law a British woman who becomes pregnant while working in Europe can't be discriminated against.”

“Young people can sometimes use language either thoughtlessly or deliberately, particularly around the use of the word 'gay.'”

“Parliamentary sovereignty - the right to pass laws as the supreme legal authority in the land, including laws that limit the powers of the executive - has been hard-won over hundreds of years. We trample on it at our peril.”