Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.