If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.

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

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

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

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.