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

There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.

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

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 am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

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

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.