Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam.

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.