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

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

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.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

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.