For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.
I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the...
My college Fitzwilliam was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in...
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the...
You can't win with some people. If you're not in government you're...
I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories -...
When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the...
The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House...
My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the...
Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance...
I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first...
In Holland they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have...
I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education and my hopes of...
I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are...
I feel like in America we don't have a kid problem. You think about all...
Even on education his one accomplishment the Leave No Child Behind Act and...
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
In England literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our...
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and...
A lot of people criticize the primaries but I think they are absolutely...