There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.

We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.

It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the [European] Community. In case such a rumour may have reached your ears, Mr Chancellor... it is only fair that I should advise you frankly to dismiss it (as my own colleagues did, long ago). We shall judge what British interests are and we shall be resolute in defending them.

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

And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.

I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.

It's a funny old world.