We need to scrap the Human Rights Act and need a balance between rights and responsibilities.

I don't think all the cycle lanes in London have been designed as well as they should have been.

The growth of cycling is a good thing. But good cycling is responsible cycling.

Motorists in London have got to be immensely careful of cyclists. At the same time, cyclists in London are too often unwilling to obey the road signs. I've seen regular examples of people who just bolt through red lights.

Leaving school or college and heading out into the world of work is never easy, even in good times. It's a huge transition as well as a practical challenge.

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

In an ideal world, no one should get something for nothing.

Government is about priorities.

Whatever your race, colour or creed in London, you still want your children to get on the housing ladder. You still want spaces in hospitals or GP surgeries, you want school places and you want space on the trains in the mornings.

I'm not suggesting we suddenly become a jingoistic, closed-door society that erects barricades at Dover. That would not be in the interests of London. But we can't, in my view, go on for ever accepting an unlimited number of people.

We cannot do anything that exposes the country to the risk of Jeremy Corbyn.

You chastise children when they are bad, as my parents did me. I'm not opposed to smacking. It is to be used occasionally.

I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to.

Are we really going to accept the situation where the government of Lithuania has more power over our trading relationship with the Commonwealth than our government does? That is the reality of the customs union.

I do not believe that as a country we are completely ill-prepared for no-deal Brexit. It is not the optimal solution it is not the best outcome for Britain, we will do much better than people expect.

We cannot afford to let Brexit slip away - the political price, the reputational damage to the country is too great.

Turkey has a customs union with the E.U. - it still means there are checks on the border between Turkey and the E.U.

I'm a lightning rod for the anti-Brexit brigade.

I'm not afraid of making big and sometimes unpopular calls if they're the right thing to do.

You can't be allowed to take away the rights of others, and then use your own rights to avoid facing the consequences.

We need a proper balance between rights and responsibilities in our laws.

We need to curtail the role of the European Court of Human Rights in the U.K.

We are world leaders in open and transparent government.

We remain fully committed to introducing a cap on social care costs.

Some bailiffs were tacking on extra charges left, right and centre - a fee for every letter they sent, extra fees for visiting your house, for clamping your car, seizing it, towing it and selling it. It all stacked up and people in debt had no choice but to pay. We have put an end to this.

No longer can a bailiff come crashing through someone's door in the dead of night. We have banned them from visiting between 9 P.M. and 6 A.M.

We're ending the situation where any old thug can turn up and work as a bailiff.

Back in the late 1980s I was programme editor of Channel Four's Business Daily. Day after day we broadcast the latest news, views and analysis for the City in a period when its visibility was as high as it has ever been.

To survive in the future, we will need our economy to be dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative and flexible.

Universities which deliver high quality research and innovation will be an essential part of that future.

University research is crucial to our future as a nation.

Take a walk around many of our cities and you will find areas of deprivation, high worklessness and educational failure only yards from areas of prosperity and employment.

Family breakdown is blighting the lives of far too many children.

Generational disinterest in education means that too many young children lack the push from their parents in early years which can make the difference between success and failure in schools.

The gang culture - tragically - has for some young people become the only source of stability in their lives.

The problems of gang crime you find in some parts of the north are little different to the problems you find on the streets of south London.

A short distance away from thriving city centres in virtually all of our cities, you will find areas of endemic worklessness, alienation, crime and antisocial behaviour.

We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.

Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Leeds have successful financial services sectors. There are good universities there which provide great opportunities for local technological innovation. And there are strong multinational and family businesses.

Social immobility is driven by family background, instability in childhood and often by parents who don't know how to give children the right start in life.

On our toughest estates, generations pass with the same experience of worklessness and educational failure.

Britain is a country of glass ceilings.

Few escape our most deprived estates. Few young people with potential escape difficult upbringings. Fewer cross the social divides.

No one would normally accuse me of being soft on crime.

I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.

People are innocent until they are proven guilty, and we will make sure that stays the case.

Introducing ID cards isn't a matter of great national security importance.

I have met virtually no one in the policing and security world who thinks ID cards are an essential part of what they need to do in the future.

The vast majority of young people in Britain are law-abiding citizens making important contributions to their communities.

The truth is that those who join gangs - more often than not they are young men in their later teens - often do come from the most difficult family backgrounds, from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted. Gang membership can bring a perverse sense of belonging which they may not have ever got at home.