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.

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

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.

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.

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.