“Like Indiana Jones, I don’t like snakes – though that might lead some to ask why I’m in politics.”

Tying money up for 40 years doesn’t sound appealing when you are young.

Britain is an open and tolerant country.

As I say the UK’s position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture.

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.

Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.

You can’t solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act. About the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

I’m not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

As I reflect on the results of election I will reflect on what we need to do in the future to take the party forward.

I believe it’s important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that’s what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want.

As I’ve said previously as home secretary, dealing with immigration isn’t just a single issue and a single measure and a single step that you take. You’ve got to keep working at that over time.

I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It’s all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.

The Government has already U-turned today and I think the pressure is clearly growing for proper accountability over what this Government’s negotiating position is on Brexit.

I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism.

What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.

IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason!

An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.

Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.