We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.

Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives.

Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that's what we don't want to be. We don't want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.

For families flying out of the U.K. for a winter getaway, airports should be the ideal place to pick up a bargain.

We don't want our government building files on what people think about their government.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.

People everywhere face the threat of control by government and technology.