We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

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.

I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.

More excuses for more failures.

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

A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.

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.