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.

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.

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

I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace the absurd gloom in some quarters with a positive, confident and optimistic approach, not just to Europe, but to government all round.

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

The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.

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