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.

The market has no morality

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.

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

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.

The British public sees with blinding clarity.

The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.