This lady is not for turning.

You can't buck the market.

We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.

Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.

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

During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.