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

The market has no morality

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

It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.

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.

I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.