I don’t think it helps the UK. Brexit is the biggest mistake of this country after the war.
November 2019
I couldn't give a flying flamingo what your view is.
If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.
I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: 'You'd be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.' I said 'Why?' She said: 'Because you're not an original thinker.'
There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.
I was proud to be a Tory Member of Parliament for twelve years, proud to represent Buckingham as a Tory, proud to have voted with my party 99% of the time as the record shows.
I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.
