"I think it is a quite extraordinary thing that we are still, as it were, obsessing about the European Union. We should be celebrating the fact that we have left it."

"I'm not a racist. Some of my best friends are black."

"I'm a great believer in the power of positive thinking."

"I believe in the power of the individual."

"I could not, and would not, be in favour of a policy of restricting the entry of foreign-born individuals who are prepared to come and work in Britain. It is a fundamental economic error."