When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost.

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.

I'm a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.

If ever there was a time for a PM ready and able to do the job from day one, this is it.

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.

I support selecting as many candidates as early as possible for lots of reasons. First of all I think it is important that every voter - regardless of where they live in the country - should have the opportunity to vote Conservative should they wish.