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

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.

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.

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.

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

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