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

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

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

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.

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

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.