We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

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.

Elected presidents are for countries.

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

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

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!