Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.

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

Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.

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

My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain-and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.

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

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.