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

For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

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.

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.