I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.