Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes.

There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.

Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.

There is no point in saving the currency if we lose the country that goes with it.

The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to get a deficit down if you have faster growth, cutting unemployment-related costs and raising revenues.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

The EU project is to create a country called Europe.

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.

No change, no chance.

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.

Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.