I Know People Are Fickle.

When A Cabinet Minister Who Is Sacked For Telling Lies Is Re-appointed, In The Face Of Every Constitutional Convention, Only For The Same Man To Be Sacked Again From The Same Cabinet For The Same Offence By The Same Prime Minister – No Wonder The Public Are Cynical About Politics.

I Thank The Prime Minister For His Remarks About Me. Debating With Him At The Dispatch Box Has Been Exciting, Fascinating, Fun, An Enormous Challenge And, From My Point Of View, Wholly Unproductive In Every Sense. I Am Told That In My Time At The Dispatch Box I Have Asked The Prime Minister 1,118 Direct Questions, But No One Has Counted The Direct Answers-it May Not Take Long.

When We Said That No More Areas Of Power Should Go To The Eu We Were Right. And Now Thanks To The European Union Act 2011, By Law That Cannot Happen Without A Referendum. And We Are Just As Right That The Eu Has More Power In Our National Life Than It Should, And I Believe As Strongly As I Ever Have That When The Right Moment Comes This Party Should Set Out To Reduce It.

I Have Always Thought That Foreign-policy Idealism Has To Be Tempered With Realism.

To The Hard-working People Who Set A Little Bit Aside Each Month, To Provide For Their Children, Or To Fund Their Own Retirement, I Say: You Should Be Rewarded Not Punished.