I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.

Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation. He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it - a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.

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

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

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.

Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It's not. On the contrary, it's a massive opportunity for this country.

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