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?

When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

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

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.

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

I think people have got to understand when a murder is committed on British soil, when innocent people have been put at risk by the method that murder is committed then we expect authorities in other parts of the world to co-operate.

I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers.