The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

I think people think their incomes have been flat lining for a long period of time. They feel that the next generation's opportunities are not going to be improvement. So and I also think that social media then allows insurgent movements to gain scale at speed.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think I am a pretty straight sort of a guy.

NATO's got a vital role to play. It's very important that we protect NATO.

A lot of the politics that is going on left and right at the moment is more about a protest, which we should respond to. It's not often about a policy. And that's why what you get is this strange coalition of different views of what the future should be, coming together in alliance to protest against the status quo.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.