I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.

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

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.

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

We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.

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.