Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!