Quotes from Penny Mordaunt

Children, who receive the right nutrition early on in life, learn much more effectively when they start school. This in turn has a huge knock-on effect on their ability to thrive in the workplace as an adult.

We need to make talking about issues like depression in the workplace the norm.

We will be a nation that is engaged not isolated, bold not timid. This is the very stuff of what it means to be us.

Bullies should not be tolerated.

Our aid spend is a reflection of us as a big-hearted, open-minded and far-sighted nation.

Embedding diversity and inclusivity, particularly with regards to disabled people, would help push the fashion and retail industry to be even more creative, more innovative, more radical and more forward-thinking.

We all want to see a world where a preventable and treatable disease no longer takes lives or prevents women and girls from attending school or work because they have to care for ill relatives.

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful chapter of our past. But sadly it is very much part of our world today.

The E.U. is removing the ability of nations to act in the interests of their people, including over immigration, which should be a force for good for our country.

Our welfare and health services must work for everyone. That means ensuring that all the help and support is wrapped around the person when they need them, not trying to make the person fit the system.

We must find a better way to enforce the Equalities Act, rather than require the injured party to sue a business, and we must, through legislation and legal action, get tougher on those organisations and industries who ignore or, worse still, exploit disabled people.

The simple truth is that unless you can control immigration you cannot govern because you cannot set a budget or plan public services.

The personal stories of disabled people suffering injustice, cruelty and ignorance are heart-breaking.

We have always been at our best as a country when we have been a global trading nation and this role offers us the best prospects for growing our future prosperity.

By helping investors create jobs in Africa and Asia we will help lift millions out of poverty.

Simply, diversity of workforce yields diversity of thinking.

Because of war millions of children are growing up with high levels of stress and trauma, missing out on school and becoming withdrawn from their friends and families.

We must judge our success on more than a person moving off a particular benefit, but rather in the distance they have travelled to meet their own ambitions.

Some sectors have a monopoly position, and football certainly does. If I am dissatisfied with my football club's facilities or the players on the pitch, I'm not about to go and purchase my season ticket from the club down the road. That loyalty should be treasured and not taken for granted.

Everyone in this country should feel safe and happy to be who they are, and to love who they love, without judgement or fear.

World Health Day is a fantastic opportunity to start a conversation about work and mental health.

We need people to be motivated, know what good looks like and why it makes sense for their businesses, services and products to cater for disabled people's needs and wants.

Obama confuses collective action and defence through Nato with the integration at all costs and damn the consequences ideology that too often motivates the E.U.

Our future defence relationship with Europe should be complimentary - and not in competition to - NATO. It must be effective, too.