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.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

I can't legislate to change human nature.

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

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.