It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.

There is no such thing as society.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

I am not a compromiser on fundamentals.

I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded