When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister – no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

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

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

I know people are fickle.

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.