Nigel Farage has called this by-election not to help you but to help himself.

I’m not giving him a national platform, he is standing to be a councillor in Somerset … it is a local platform looking at parking, sorting out bins … I have much higher thresholds for what it takes to be a Conservative MP.

The Conservative Party believes in second chances.

The country needs conviction politicians, not politicians with convictions.

I have much higher thresholds for what it takes to be a Conservative MP.

I am extremely worried about antisemitism and what I feel is that if we can’t have the people who have previously been radicalised, who understand what went wrong and are part of the fight against antisemitism now, if we’re saying: ‘No…

This man is showing that he’s more than contrite, he’s actually working training Prevent officers, speaking in universities and schools.

He should have done that and allowed himself to face questions from MPs. That’s what we’re elected to do.

What I will criticise Andy Burnham for is not coming to parliament after becoming prime minister.

I’m not going to criticise a politician for taking a holiday. I’m not going to criticise Andy Burnham for that.

Yes, he is somebody who had been previously convicted but he is someone who has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously.

I want to be very clear – and I think people can look at me and know that I’m not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis.

I want second chances for good people, for people who've their lessons for people who are showing that they know what they did was wrong.

Josh is someone who actually has been certified by the Home Office to train police officers on anti-Semitism and on countering extremism.

Everyone starts from scratch. Everyone has to earn their place.

Just because someone was a minister does not mean they automatically come back as a minister again.

I think people can look at me and know that I'm not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis.

This is not just someone that we've picked up who is a convicted criminal - this is somebody who is actively working to help communities, especially Jewish communities.

He is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew he had caused previously.

There could be all sorts of reasons for any individual to be allowed or not allowed on the list.

The situation with prisons is challenging but we never had killers, rapists, paedophiles on early release.

If everybody says ‘no prison near me’, we won’t get these built.

If Andy Burnham wants to prove that he is serious about this, he needs to revoke the commencement order...

We cannot say ‘no’ to every potential site for a prison.

It's quite clear that the prime minister sees that this is a problem, but I don't think he knows what to do about it.