I felt we needed someone to lead this country who believed heart and soul in leaving the European Union.

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

One of the things I know about the European Union is that the European Union can destroy jobs.

If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.