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

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

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.

The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.

I keep telling my Tory colleagues: don't have any policies. A manifesto that has policies alienates people. In 1979 the manifesto said nothing which was brilliant.

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

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