Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so.

The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

Targets don't fight crime.

Starting with the highest-risk countries, and focusing on the route to Britain that is widely abused, student visas, we will increase the number of interviews to considerably more than 100,000, starting next financial year. From there, we will extend the interviewing programme further across all routes to Britain, wherever the evidence takes us.