Chris Grayling
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.Collection: Space
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.Collection: Truth
It was never the case that prisoners were simply allowed unlimited parcels - books or otherwise... It would be a logistical impossibility to search them all, and they would provide an easy route for illegal materials.
Introducing ID cards isn't a matter of great national security importance.
We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.
Britain has always been a good citizen in the world. We rightly provide a safe haven for people fleeing political persecution by brutal regimes. Our legal system is often seen as a beacon for the rest of the world, with people coming from all over to study it and embed its principles into their own systems.
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.
We're ending the situation where any old thug can turn up and work as a bailiff.
Judicial review has developed since the 1970s as a way for individuals to challenge decisions taken by the State.
We've got a very poor record on unnecessary red tape; extra cost to business; people being asked to do things they don't need to; over the top regulation, misinterpreted regulation, poor guidelines.
If we have unlimited migration in perpetuity, the pressure that will put on the lives of those in and around London and the South-East, in terms of housing and pressure on public services, will be something that all of us come to understand, in my view, is simply not copable with.
It is already tough to buy a house. But if we are bringing a population the size of Newcastle upon Tyne into the country every single year, if we cannot set limits on the number of people that come and work in Britain, then simple maths says it is going to be even more difficult to get on to the housing ladder.
I personally always took the view that, if you look at the case of should a Christian hotel owner have the right to exclude a gay couple from a hotel, I took the view that if it's a question of somebody who's doing a B&B in their own home, that individual should have the right to decide who does and who doesn't come into their own home.
We are concerned about benefit tourism.
One thing really important is that we set out an agenda of compassionate Conservativism. That's what I've been trying to do in the Justice Department.
This is not rocket science. If you mentor and support people when they leave prison they're less likely to reoffend.
People who end up in our prisons tend to come from the most difficult backgrounds. They did not have the parental support as they grew up, as many of us enjoyed, and they struggle when they leave prison.
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.
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.
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.
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.