My mother was the center of the family.

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.