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

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.

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

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

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

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

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.