Once again Westminster is tinkering around the edges of a fundamentally broken system. The House of Lords is an absurdly bloated, unelected chamber that has no place in a modern democracy.
Commenting on the House of Lords reform proposals.
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Let's take the extraordinary skills and expertise created by the North Sea and put them to work building its successor.
Well, it could equally apply to Scottish independence, but it would be entirely the wrong thing to do.
I have watched, like everybody else, as the world has burned this summer.
You cannot have such huge sweeping constitutional change, whether that is Scotland becoming an independent country or the UK re-joining the EU without the consent of the people through a referendum – it would be untenable.
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