There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

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.

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

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

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