I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts

You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.

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.

I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.