While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.