Boris [Johnson] was cavalier with assurances he made. We're picking a prime minister here to lead the country, not a school prefect.

Michael Gove is the right leader for the country ... He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate.

[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.

I also think when it comes to delivering on Brexit, we need someone with a passion but also the mastery of the detail.

No one fights with more principle and passion than Michael Gove.

Michael Gove is the right leader for the country.

Ultimately what is not needed now is recriminations.

We were striving and struggling not just for a dream ticket, but a dream team...

Putting together a really strong unifying team was an absolute condition. When that fell away, I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.

I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.

The people are angry. It's running out of control. And unfortunately, there are a group of police that have become nothing more than enforcers for the political and financial crime bosses.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.