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

My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result that we've seen in Britain.

The British public sees with blinding clarity.

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.

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

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.

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