Elected presidents are for countries.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

I know people are fickle.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.