The market has no morality

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.