For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

If there’'s one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair, it’s this: I’m not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies - and agencies and their offices in Brussels.