When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe.

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

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

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

It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.