We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.

We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.

To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians do, to take counsel together, their purpose is not ( or should not be) to ascertain what is the mind of the majority but what is the mind of the Holy Spirit - something which may be quite different.

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

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

In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts.