I think the people like myself who are in the center ground of politics and who think that center left and center right can cooperate and work together. Who don't like this sort of insurgent populism because we think it's not really going to deliver for the people, I think there's a big responsibility on us in the center to get our act together. And to work out radical but serious solutions to the problems people face.

The Spanish PM rang me to say: 'I have the support of only 4 per cent of the people.' I said, 'Crikey, that's even less than think Elvis Presley is still alive.'

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race.

And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.

People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.