CHRIS GRAYLING

Police on the street need the discretion to deal quickly and easily with routine misdemeanours which need to be recorded but need not take up court time - and where there is no doubt about guilt.

Government is about priorities.

An economic strategy built around hiking taxes for business means one thing: fewer jobs.

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

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

During the late 1940s, Europe was a pretty bleak place.

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

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

The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum - but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.

We take back control of our laws and Britain will be a proud independent nation again.

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

It was in that uncertain world that the European Convention on Human Rights was shaped. Written by Conservatives, it set out the principles which should lie behind a modern democratic state, where human rights were respected.

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.

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

All too often, ambulance-chasing has been simple fraud. People are encouraged to launch a claim for whiplash when no one has been injured. Phone calls ask you to claim for accidents that never happened.

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

If the law is wrong, it is for politicians to sort it out.

I think it's fair to set limits on housing benefit, so that people on welfare do not end up able to live in better areas than those doing the right thing by finding work.

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.

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

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

If you stop investing in a modern road system to give an unaffordable electoral bung to new voters, then the investors who could create great jobs for them will be doing so for the younger generation in another country instead.

All too often politicians sign treaties in a hurry, without reading them properly, and without understanding where they will lead.

European businesses will want to retain free-trade access to the U.K. - their biggest export market.

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.