I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.