Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.

All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.

You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth—and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

I think it'd be disgraceful if a chap wasn't allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn't misbehave in some trivial way.