Quotes from Grant Shapps

Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.

No government can maintain the public's confidence if it is outwardly split.

To reduce repossessions caused by unemployment, Gordon Brown needs to look at cutting the rate of corporation tax for small companies to 20 per cent and the main rate to 25 per cent, while reducing the rate of employers' national insurance by 1% for the smallest companies.

Gordon Brown doesn't often spring surprises. He's usually far too cautious to deliver the unexpected.

One of the cruellest things of all is to have a huge deficit in this country, meaning that everyone's children will be expected to pay back for our debt today. That is unfair as well.

We need a system where some politicians - who quite rightly respond to the public mood - are prepared to stand up in favour of housebuilding, so I came up with a system that gives local people something they really want in return for building more homes. In our case in Hatfield, it's a new town centre.

I have always been an aviation nerd. I read the magazines.

Newspapers in this country are famously independent of politics.

There is a dangerous chasm between what those seeking election claim they could do in office and the stark reality that once in power the real decision-making has long since been sub-contracted elsewhere.

If you believe in staying at home and looking after your kids, and bringing your kids up, we think it is a fantastic thing to do.

Incredibly, a typical town hall official spends 85% of their time satisfying ministers in Whitehall and a puny 15% of the day for local residents. We believe that this relationship is upside down.

Conservatives don't love business for some abstract reason. We love it because of what it offers our children. Hope.

I think it's absolutely extraordinary that any Conservative MP considered even for one minute installing Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.

Chemo is properly punishing, and it's hard to do things at the usual level.

I always think there's some value in saying no with a smile.

MPs are only elected thanks to the help of ordinary members - activists on the ground who traipse the streets, post leaflets and engage in millions of doorstep conversations, come rain or shine and without pay.

We want councillors and MPs to be more closely involved in housing issues because this will help to strengthen local democracy and accountability.

Most people don't get the chance to do whatever their dream in life was. I have ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do and it has been more enjoyable, challenging, stretching and fulfilling than I would have dared to imagine.

It's almost impossible to get the outside world to take any notice of homelessness at all.

Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle revolution.

Things don't always go according to plan. That's life and that's government.

My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as many authors do.

I went to Manchester poly for two years.