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

Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

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

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

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.

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

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.