It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

Disunity costs votes.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.