Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects - the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?

You can't lead from the crowd.

You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.