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.

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

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

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