I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

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 think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.

I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.