In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

I think conspiracy theories have gotten more and more close to the mainstream because what you've got is a fragmentation of the media, where the media becomes much more polarized today, left and right.

Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions of dollars with absolutely no training and very little support system around them. It's an extraordinary thing.

Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

I'm one of these people that, once you have had your election and you have elected your candidate, let's see what actually happens.