Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.

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.

When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.

The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

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

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

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.