I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of remarks which she made about defence against the Soviet Union and its allies; but there was no reason to suppose that the Right Honourable Lady did not welcome and, indeed, take pride in that description. In the next week or two this House, the nation and the Right Honourable Lady herself, will learn of what metal she is made.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.