Cracking down on tax evasion and cracking down on aggressive tax avoidance, and saw more prosecutions, all the things that labour failed to do over and over again. Sixthform colleges such as hills road and long road in cambridge do an excellent job in educating our young people, but they struggle to get by because, unlike school or Academy Sixth forms, they have to pay vat of over £300,000 each. Will the Prime Minister listen to voices across this house and scrap this tax on learning . I will look very carefully at what the honorable gentleman says. I know it is important that we try to treat educational institutions fairly, and we all want to see the continued and growing success of our schools and colleges. Closed question, mr. Graham allen. The Prime Minister. We should be proud that in magna carta our country established rules of justice and freedom that, 800 years later, still inform our constitution and resonate around the world. While there is a longstanding debate over the issue, there are no plans at present for a written constitution. I note that the Prime Minister says at present. does he agree, though, that there are unacceptably high levels of voter disengagement, with more people staying at home than voted labour and conservative at the last election . Would he commit his government now, to preparing an allparty constitutional convention, in order to give every uk citizen a copy of our societys rulebook either a statute of the union or a written constitution, as a part of electors feeling once again that they own our democracy . Obviously, i always look at the honorable gentlemans suggestions very carefully because he has made a number of sensible crossparty interventions over recent years, but i have my doubts whether another talking convention is the answer. I think we need to look at some of the constitutional issues that leave people feeling left behind, not least english votes for english laws, and make sure that we put those things in place. The disappointment i have with the labour party is that it is prepared to talk about allparty talks on wales, scotland or northern ireland, but when it comes to empowering english people and making sure that they have rights in this house, it is completely absent from the debate. Article 39 of magna carta has the origins of our right to trial by jury. In a recent report, sir brian leveson, not satisfied with undermining the right to a free press, wants to restrict the right to trial by jury. Will my right honorable friend as long as he is Prime Minister, defend our historic rights . I am a great supporter of jury trial. I think it is one of the very important things we have in this country that safeguard peoples rights and freedoms, and i do not want to see it reduced. Order. You have been watching Prime Ministers questions from the british house of commons. Question time airs live on cspan2 every wednesday at 7 00 a. M. Eastern and again on sunday nights at 9 00 p. M. Eastern and pacific. Watch anytime at www. Cspan. Org where you can find video of past Prime Ministers questions and other British Public affairs programs. The Political Landscape has changed with the 114th congress. There are 12 new republicans and one new democrat in the senate. There are also 108 women in congress, including the first africanamerican republican in the house and first woman veteran in the senate. Keep track of members using congressional chronicle at www. Cspan. Org. The page has lots of useful information, including statistics about each session of congress. On cspan, cspan2, cspan radio and www. Cspan. Org. Coming up, former hewlettpackard ceo Carly Fiorina at the politics and eggs breakfast in New Hampshire. Rand paul at the annual gala. And later, rick perry discusses immigration and Economic Issues with republican women in New Hampshire. Carly fiorina, former hewlettpackard ceo, who now chairs the conservative union foundation, spoke at the politics and eggs breakfast on tuesday. She says she is considering a run for the 2016 president ial nomination. The politics and eggs Breakfast Series dates back to 1996 and is hosted by the New Hampshire institute of politics. It is almost an hour. [applause] thank you, neil. As some of you know, i spent several years in wisconsin as president of an institution before coming to New Hampshire and we have a word for days like today, it is called summer. [laughter] it is my great honor to introduce our speaker. Carly fiorina is the first woman ceo of hewlettpackard and the first to lead a fortune 500 company. She was named by Fortune Magazine as one of the most powerful women in american business. In 2010, carly was the nominee for the u. S. Senate from california. She has been a member of many boards, including kellogg company, World Economic foundation, and the United States china board of trade. She currently serves as the chair of the unlocking potential project, which seeks to help female conservatives. Last week, i was at a Board Meeting for indpendent colleges. Our speaker was chuck todd from nbc and i asked who he thought had the greatest potential of among candidates we do not hear about as much as the primary ones in the media market. Before i could finish the sentence, he said Carly Fiorina. For her leadership, for her experience, for her ability to relate to people. We are pleased to have her join us this morning, especially since shes traveled in a snowstorm to get here. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Carly Fiorina. [applause] well, good morning. It is a great pleasure to be with you this morning at the legendary politics and eggs. Thank you for that gracious introduction. I know when speaking with many of you that you were sick of the snow, but i think it is a beautiful winter wonderland, i must say. Especially in this charming place. A colleague and i drove in from new york. The turnpike was down to one lane, but we made it. We arrived and decided to have dinner with another colleague or in carney, here in the restaurant. If you have never been to the restaurant here, it is really beautiful and charming and the food is delicious. But we walked in, it was empty last night, except there was a couple tucked into a corner. They had champagne, and we were sort of loud when we came in. We said, we are probably disturbing your romantic evening here. The woman looked at me and said, no, this is my brother. [laughter] good morning, i am happy to be here. Whenever i receive a gracious introduction it always sounds smooth and no ones life is smooth and mine has not been either. I will start by telling you a little about myself because i think all of us in this room have benefited tremendously by living in this country and meeting people have taken a chance on us and certainly that is true with me. When i was a little girl, about eight years old, my mother was my sunday School Teacher and she gave to me a plaque that said, what you are is gods gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to god. I thought about those words growing up because i did not feel gifted, i was a goody two shoes middle child. My sister was more beautiful and talented. My brother was a great athlete. I was kind of stuck in the middle. I went off to college, i was fortunate enough to be admitted to Stanford University but i graduated with a degree in medieval history and philosophy. So i was all dressed up with nowhere to go, completely unemployable. With apologies to the lawyers in the room, i went off to law school. My dad was a law professor and wanted me to follow in his footsteps. I really hated law school, and i quit after a single semester. I needed to earn a living fulltime, so i i did parttime to my way through school. Some of you are old enough to remember kelly girls. I was a kelly girl. It is politically incorrect to say that now. But we were young women who we typed and answered phones on a temporary basis for local businesses and one of my jobs was hewlettpackard. I was a pretty good typist. I answered an ad, accepted the first offer, and became a receptionist in a nine person real estate firm. I sat in the front of that office and answered phones and greeted clients and typed files. I had no sense of what the future was like, i just needed to pay the rent. Six months into the job, two men that work there came to my desk and said we have been watching you and think you could do more than files. You want to learn something about business . Those men change the trajectory of my life because they saw that possibilities in me. Because they saw possibilities in me, i saw possibilities in myself. I have traveled all over the world and lived all over the world and i know that it is true in 2015 that it is only in this where a young woman can start out as a Law School Dropout and secretary and become the chief executive of the Largest Technology company in the world, that is only possible in the United States of america. It is possible here because our founders knew what my mother taught me. Our founders had a radical insight. That radical insight was that everyone has godgiven gifts. Everyone has potential. Everyone should have the right and opportunity to fulfill their potential. That is what they meant when they said life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They further have what was, at the time, a radical insight when they said, the opportunity to fulfill your potential comes from god and should not be taken away by government. What was, at the time, a radicalover the course of my experience, i learned that absolutely everyone has god given gift. Everyone has potential. In fact, right before i came here, i was in india for a week. I served as chairman of an Organization Called opportunity. We are the largest Microfinance Organization in the world. We have lent about 8 million 150 at a time. 93 of our clients are women. 97 of our clients india are women. In addition to holding a Board Meeting their, i and others had traveled to the slums of new delhi to see our client. If you have ever been in the slums of delhi, they are horrific. People are piled on top of one another. There are mounds of trash sewage, animals everywhere. We sat with women to whom we had given a chance. To whom we had given a helping hand. Most importantly of all, what we had said to these women is you have godgiven gifts. You have potential. You, despite your terrible circumstance, you have the capacity to live a life of dignity and purpose and meaning. And we are going to take a chance on you. Amidst this really desperate scene were beautiful, courageous women dressed in multicolored clothing. In their eyes was a look not of desperation. In their eyes was a look of hope and optimism and confidence and determination to build a better life for themselves and their families. Everyone does have the capacity and desire to live a life of dignity and purpose and meaning. And everyone has more potential than they realized. I tell you that story about those two men because i learned Something Else that day, though i did not realize it at the time. When i was a young woman, i thought leadership was about the people who had the big offices. The big titles. The big perks. The big parking place. If you had a big office, you must be a leader. As i grew older and wiser i came to realize there are a lot of people with big offices who do not lead. I also came to learn that management and leadership are two different things. Management, we know how important management is. But it is the production of acceptable results within existing constraints and renditions conditions. Managers accept the conditions within they operate and do the best they can within those conditions. It is important, but it is not leadership. What i learned from those men many years ago is the highest calling of leadership. It is to unlock potential in others. Everyone has it. The highest calling of leadership is to unlock potential in others by changing the order of things. Not by accepting the constraint and conditions that exist simply because they have always been there, but by seeing something different, something better. Having a vision that says, these women can live a life of dignity and purpose and meaning. For this young girl can do more than type and file. War our country can be once again a place where every american can live a life of dignity and purpose and meaning. Leaders change the order of things. They unlock potential in others. They see possibilities. And they focus others potential on seizing those possibilities. I have traveled all across the country in the last 10 years. I have talked to a lot of different people about a lot of different subjects. One of the things i sense in this nation is disquiet. Disquiet. People are afraid of losing something. People think we are missing something. I think what people think we are losing is what a man told me at a rotary club in New Hampshire last summer. I gave a speech at the rotary club at seacoast. A man came up to me afterwards and said, you know, i do not think we think of ourselves as a country of unlimited potential anymore. I think that is right. I think that is what americans fear we are losing. That sense of limitless possibility. The sense of limitless possibility that, if it were worth doing, we would do it. Anything we could dream, we could accomplish. That our childrens futures would be better than our own. That sense of limitless possibility is as core to who we are as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. People fear we are losing that and you can see it in poll after poll. Americans think their future their childrens future will be more constrained than their own. People know we are missing something. I think what people know we are missing is leadership. The leadership that understand its highest quality is to unlock potential in others. The leadership that understands its mission is to seize possibilities so that this nation can once again be a place of a limitless possibility for everyone. And that is why i am giving very serious consideration to running for the presidency of the United States. Because i think our nation is at a critical pivotal point. I think sometimes that the managers within the existing political system it is not that they are not good people. It is not that the bureaucrats within the agencies are not good people. But sometimes people have been within a system for so long they cannot see it for what it is any more. They spend all their time constrained by what has always been in place and cannot see the possibilities anymore for changing the order of things. You see, i am absolutely convinced that all our wounds are selfinflicted. All of our problems represent opportunities as well. We have marvelous opportunities in the 21st century, where things are more possible for more people than at any time in human history. And so i think we need leadership now that focuses on three fundamental things. First, this must be an economy that allows everyone to find and use their godgiven gift. What does that mean . It means that every child actually must have a great education. And every worker, every worker who is laid off, has an opportunity to be retrained so they are qualified for point First Century jobs. 21st century jobs. I remember when the Teachers Union in chicago struck early on in Rahm Emanuels tenure. They. Struck over the issue of payforperformance. The head of the union took to the microphone and said this, we cannot be held accountable for the performance of children in our classroom because too many of them are poor and come from broken families. What was she saying . She was saying if you are poor and come from a broken family, you do not have potential. You do not have godgiven gifts. And every child wants to learn. It is natural instinct of children and every child has god given gift. May iand every child wants to say, i think this is the fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals. I am a conservative because i know our principles and policies work better to unlock potential in people. I know they work better to lift people up. And i know that everyone of us is equal to every other one of us. No one of us is better than any other. Everyone of us has godgiven gift, and everyone of us needs a helping hand. When i battled cancer, i needed a helping hand. When i was a struggling secretary, i needed a helping hand. When we lost our daughter, my family needed a helping hand. We all face circumstances where we need a helping hand. But i also know that everyone has the capacity to live a life of dignity and purpose and meaning. I do not believe but some liberals believe this i think they think some are smarter than others, better than others. So some will take care of others. They do not say it that way, but actions speak louder than words to me. We are not only denying too many children the opportunity to be educated, which is their opportunity to fulfill their gift and live a life of success. But we are also trapping people in a web of dependent that is agonizing to get out of. If you are a single mom with two kids and want to bill you build your own life, the choices you have to make to get off programs are agonizing. I met a woman in albany who runs a beauty salon. You build your ownit is a great Business Opportunity for so many young, aspiring women. So many of her young women will say, where do you want to be in two or three years . So many of these women come to her and they, i cannot work this many hours. If i do, i will lose my chance to get programs. What an awful choice we are asking to make. We have to make sure everyone has an opportunity and a great education. We have to make sure we break this web of dependency. We have to make sure peo