Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

You cannot win an election without a fight