Quotes from Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

In the hands of great school leaders, Teach First can make a spectacular difference.

In the hundreds of hours spent in Parliament debating Brexit, I constantly think of how we could have spent our time better.

My father came to Britain in search of a better life. My aunts, uncles and cousins fled here in search of safety as Cyprus's Greek and Turkish populations fell into open hostility.

It is simply not possible to achieve the 'freedom' from E.U. economic institutions that Brexiters want without undermining Britain's economy and security.

School standards need to rise a lot further if the full potential of all our young people, particularly those from poorer backgrounds, is to be realised: there is no room for complacency.

Resistance to Brexit is the logic of everything Labour stands for.

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

Teach First is uniquely placed to help universities broaden the social background of their student intake.

England's dominant schools, universities, professions and enterprises are largely in the ideological and filial grip of the Conservative party. This isn't always obvious but it is emphatic, especially when they are threatened.

Universities should be supporting Teach First, actively promoting it among their students and financially supporting them to join the scheme, using a small fraction of their income from higher fees for this purpose.

The only way Brexit might have worked without an economic collapse is the Norway model of close integration with the structure of the European customs union and single market without being part of the formal E.U. institutions.

Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.

I have to confess, street politics are not my usual style.

The individuals who intervened in my life, transformed it, didn't do so in a vacuum. One was a manager of a children's home, a whole string of them were teachers. What they had in common was that they worked in successful institutions.

In politics, exhaustion and attrition need to be overcome, not indulged.

For the Conservative Party to become the mouthpiece of energy monopolists is not only a political error; it is fundamentally at variance with the liberal economics they claim to espouse.

Teachers need to have the capacity to spot those that are struggling early on and intervene.

Apprenticeships must be more than a re-branding of in-work training if they are going to have a substantive impact on the future economy and the life chances of our young people.

Brexit is not a viable path for Britain.

The BBC is consistently manipulated by Brexiteers into providing them with false parity in arguments where their views add nothing, represent nobody and are demonstrably and factually wrong.

Virtually no other state concentrates as much political, economic and cultural power in its capital city. Even Paris is less economically dominant than London and its hinterland.

Education for all up to 18, and lifelong learning beyond. That is a vision true to Ruskin - the man, the college, and the speech.