A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.