Chris Grayling

The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum - but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.

All too often politicians sign treaties in a hurry, without reading them properly, and without understanding where they will lead.

Britain has always been a good citizen in the world. We rightly provide a safe haven for people fleeing political persecution by brutal regimes. Our legal system is often seen as a beacon for the rest of the world, with people coming from all over to study it and embed its principles into their own systems.

All too often, ambulance-chasing has been simple fraud. People are encouraged to launch a claim for whiplash when no one has been injured. Phone calls ask you to claim for accidents that never happened.

European businesses will want to retain free-trade access to the U.K. - their biggest export market.

We take back control of our laws and Britain will be a proud independent nation again.

I want to see prisoners getting support that is every bit as good as that which they would receive from the NHS in the community.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

When you talk to unemployed young people you hear one thing above all others - if you haven't got experience how can you get a job? But if you don't have a job, how can you get experience?

I think it's fair to set limits, so that people cannot receive more than the equivalent of the national average wage while living on benefits.

I think it's fair to set limits on housing benefit, so that people on welfare do not end up able to live in better areas than those doing the right thing by finding work.

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

We must give individuals the opportunity to show what they are capable of.

If the law is wrong, it is for politicians to sort it out.

Whether it is kids carrying knives because they are in gangs or kids carrying knives because they are afraid of gangs, it is the gang culture that underpins the problem.

The truth is that those who join gangs - more often than not they are young men in their later teens - often do come from the most difficult family backgrounds, from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted. Gang membership can bring a perverse sense of belonging which they may not have ever got at home.

The vast majority of young people in Britain are law-abiding citizens making important contributions to their communities.

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.

Introducing ID cards isn't a matter of great national security importance.

People are innocent until they are proven guilty, and we will make sure that stays the case.

The arrival of DNA testing has brought new dimensions to the investigation of crime. It has brought resolution to old cases where past investigators were unable to uncover the truth. It has brought justice in new cases where once the truth might never have been known.

I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.

No one would normally accuse me of being soft on crime.

Few escape our most deprived estates. Few young people with potential escape difficult upbringings. Fewer cross the social divides.

Britain is a country of glass ceilings.

The trouble with the SNP is they want power without responsibility. They do not want to take difficult decisions.

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

Britain has always been a nation with a strong global focus. We have influenced change and built strong ties all round the world.

Visit any of the fastest growing parts of the world and you will find investment in infrastructure.

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

If you stop investing in a modern road system to give an unaffordable electoral bung to new voters, then the investors who could create great jobs for them will be doing so for the younger generation in another country instead.

It is free enterprise and the determination to succeed which generates opportunity and wealth for our society, and in doing so provides the money we need to deliver the high quality public services that we all want.

Travel costs should not be a barrier to opportunity for our young people.

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.

The railways should be run in the best interest of passengers and, overall, taxpayer's money should be spent improving the network, not subsiding it.

I'm very mindful of the need to ensure we have a criminal justice system in which people have confidence.

I want to be the Tough Justice Secretary.

Good health and safety really matters - we need to protect people against death and serious injury in the workplace.

On our toughest estates, generations pass with the same experience of worklessness and educational failure.

Scotland is a great country. It's integral to the U.K.

The SNP talks a lot - but they have proved that they cannot deliver.

It's not good enough to announce 'I know my rights' if you aren't prepared to accept that you have responsibilities to society and your fellow citizens as well. And if people don't live up to those responsibilities to our society, they will not be able to hide behind their rights.

It was in that uncertain world that the European Convention on Human Rights was shaped. Written by Conservatives, it set out the principles which should lie behind a modern democratic state, where human rights were respected.

During the late 1940s, Europe was a pretty bleak place.

Police on the street need the discretion to deal quickly and easily with routine misdemeanours which need to be recorded but need not take up court time - and where there is no doubt about guilt.

The typical prisoner has numerous brushes with the law before finally being sent behind bars. Each year thousands of cautions are issued to people who will come back to crime again.

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

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

Britain cannot afford to allow a culture of Left-wing-dominated, single-issue activism to hold back our country from investing in infrastructure and new sources of energy and from bringing down the cost of our welfare state.

The Human Rights Convention was written by Conservatives in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was designed to combat the risk of another Holocaust, and to try to stop people being sent to prison camps without trial.