"I was lucky. I got university degrees and had a successful tech and finance career. But many of my g..." — Kemi Badenoch

We should honour the memory of past members like Airey Neave by treating each other and the institution of parliament itself with more respect. Nobody should denigrate it for doing exactly what it should be doing - debating and arguing the most difficult and complex decisions of our time.

Growing up in Nigeria I saw real poverty - I experienced it, including living without electricity and doing my homework by candlelight, because the state electricity board could not provide power, and fetching water in heavy, rusty buckets from a bore-hole a mile away, because the nationalised water company could not get water out of the taps.

I'm not just equality minister I am also a Treasury secretary.

As equalities minister, I am responsible for promoting equality of opportunity for everyone.