Quotes from Chris Grayling

You chastise children when they are bad, as my parents did me. I'm not opposed to smacking. It is to be used occasionally.

Unlike Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, I am not ideologically obsessed with the structure of our rail network; for me it is a matter of practicality.

It was never the case that prisoners were simply allowed unlimited parcels - books or otherwise... It would be a logistical impossibility to search them all, and they would provide an easy route for illegal materials.

If we have unlimited migration in perpetuity, the pressure that will put on the lives of those in and around London and the South-East, in terms of housing and pressure on public services, will be something that all of us come to understand, in my view, is simply not copable with.

I'm not suggesting we suddenly become a jingoistic, closed-door society that erects barricades at Dover. That would not be in the interests of London. But we can't, in my view, go on for ever accepting an unlimited number of people.

We've got a very poor record on unnecessary red tape; extra cost to business; people being asked to do things they don't need to; over the top regulation, misinterpreted regulation, poor guidelines.

I'm not afraid of making big and sometimes unpopular calls if they're the right thing to do.

Motorists in London have got to be immensely careful of cyclists. At the same time, cyclists in London are too often unwilling to obey the road signs. I've seen regular examples of people who just bolt through red lights.

We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.

We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.

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

The problems of gang crime you find in some parts of the north are little different to the problems you find on the streets of south London.

We need to be self-confident, ambitious, and relentlessly internationalist in our outlook.

We need society, and particularly the victims of crime, to believe justice is being done.

The state has no right to cast people aside because they are sick or disabled.

A short distance away from thriving city centres in virtually all of our cities, you will find areas of endemic worklessness, alienation, crime and antisocial behaviour.

I have met virtually no one in the policing and security world who thinks ID cards are an essential part of what they need to do in the future.

Back in the late 1980s I was programme editor of Channel Four's Business Daily. Day after day we broadcast the latest news, views and analysis for the City in a period when its visibility was as high as it has ever been.

As somebody who campaigned to leave the EU, I believe we have a bright future ahead of us- but we have to get it right.