It just happens I write fast and always have done.

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

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.

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.

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.

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

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