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

Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

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

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

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.

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.