My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

The difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.

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

We need to remember that we can't compete endlessly with other nations that set their income taxes substantially lower than ours. They will attract jobs, and investment. They may generate more tax - and they may even persuade their tennis champs to run that extra half yard

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

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.