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

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.

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

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

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.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.