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

Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.