Matt Hancock

The reason we need formal government guidance from the chief medical officer is to empower parents.

I am a very slow reader. I have to have things written in a pithy way.

Lots of people say politics is about individualism and egos. I happen to think government is best operated as a team.

If technology can remove some of the labour-intensive tasks where the computer can do better than the human eye; that helps.

Well, the truth is that anybody who is a Conservative knows that the way you generate wealth and ultimately all the taxes that pay for public services is through business, people coming together to make something of their lives and to create jobs.

The Conservative party's always been a broad church, and I can appeal better than any of the other candidates to the centre ground to unite the country, and to voters who will ultimately deliver a majority so we can really get things moving.