This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.

It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.

It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.

People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.