Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability

The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.

My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions.

Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.