Andrea Leadsom, I think, has all the qualities that you need at the moment. She's got a lot of zap, a lot of drive, and all the experience. Plus I think she can articulate what's needed at the moment, which is a bit of an antidote to some of the gloom and negativity and misunderstanding about what the Brexit vote means.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.