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.

The market has no morality

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.

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

Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

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