Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.