"What we're talking about tomorrowischildren in families where the welfare benefits have been cut to a point where they are less than Parliament actually has said they should be, because that's what a cap does, " he told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme.
In the 21st century, when countries that out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow, there is nothing that will determine the quality of our future as a nation and the lives our children will lead more than the kind of education that we provide them.