You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch.

Yes, I do talk to my trees. I did say to one 'You'd better smarten yourself up or you'll be gone' and the next year, well, you've never seen such a mass of flowers.

You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair.

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?

In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.