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.

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

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.

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

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

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.