When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.

On the question of taking credit for what goes right and blame for what goes wrong - having led the Conservative party for four years, I have never heard of this notion before.

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

You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.