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.

Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

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.

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

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