The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

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 have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

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.

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

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

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