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

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

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

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself - no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

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.

I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.