We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.