My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.

Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

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

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

If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.