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.

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

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.