Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

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

All I can say to the others is, 'Look out, we're on our way.

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

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