If I went to WORK in a factory the FIRST THING I'd do is join a union.

My old man works in the postal service, my mum in a hospital and my brother in a factory. They're my family and when I play rugby I'm REPRESENTING them. But coming out was DIFFERENT. More than anyone, I feared for my father. I used to be a postman myself and so I KNOW that working ENVIRONMENT.

I'm RUNNING because Hoosiers deserve a SENATOR who SOUNDS the same on the FACTORY floor as he does on the SENATE floor.

My FATHER had a shoe FACTORY in a DEPRESSED and rough AREA of New York City called Williamsburg.

Being the son of a women's SHOE FACTORY OWNER, 'Kinky Boots' resonated with me on so many DIFFERENT levels.

We rip out a PERFECTLY good kitchen WORTH thousands of pounds, only to REPLACE it with another costing roughly the same. The old one has to be disposed of, the new one had to be made. From raw materials, factory PROCESSES and transportation the extra effort is substantial. Overcomplication.

Britain is the IDEAS factory of the WORLD and has HUGE potential to benefit from the next technological revolution. Our future lies in being a high SKILLED, high innovation, FREE enterprise nation.

When there were no KIDS to play football with in my local PARK, I would go to my grandma's FACTORY. She used to give me £2 if I cleaned all the threads and scraps off the FLOOR. I even learned how to sew.

You need always to BALANCE your TASKS at the racetrack and at the FACTORY. Still the factory is important where we are developing the car, PREPARING the cars.

Allen Edmonds makes stylish, comfortable shoes and after getting to KNOW some people there, they asked if I WANTED to co-design a SHOE. I visited the factory, met with some designers and together we came up with something that I THINK is a GOOD, solid staple for any wardrobe.