These days we dimly believe that the Second World War was won with Russian blood and American money; and though that is in some ways true, it is also true that, without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won.

Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.

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.

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.

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.