I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.

We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.