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.

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

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

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.

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

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

The British public sees with blinding clarity.