The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

I've never been much given to little social cliques.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.