If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.

History provides no precise guidelines.

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.