What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.

We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted to commit crime think twice.

People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.

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

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