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.

They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

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