I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.

We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

History is what we read, write and think about the past.