Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internatio….

It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty..

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful ….

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today..

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have….

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and hu….

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside….

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until eve….

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conserv….

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!.

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 ….

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran..

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussel….

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe..

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction..

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibilit….

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline..

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 s….

Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political re….

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting envir….

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it..