You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

The national deficit is not rising.

In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.