To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

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

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.

We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.