If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

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

I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.