Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.
Chris PattenIt is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
Chris PattenIt behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.
Chris Patten