World quotes

The chief constable has briefed me on the details as they’re known at the moment, but I think it’s very important for us to have in our thoughts the family and friends of Ann Widdecombe and, to be clear, the single most important thing at…

I’ve been stunned to hear this awful news. To be honest, I’ve really struggled to find the words to say. Ann Widdecombe was a very fun and feisty woman who spoke her mind and she was 78 years old, she was an elderly woman. I don’t…

I am very saddened to hear of the death of Ann Widdecombe and the awful circumstances in which this has happened. I extend my sympathy to her family, friends and many colleagues.

So everybody, my father used to shoot pistols for Oxford University and he had, he’s dead now bless him, but he had all his pistols taken away.

They don’t want the public to have guns. As you probably know they banned handguns in the late 90s because there was a murder up in Dunblane.

What an utter disgrace [Amnesty] is. Once a credible human rights organisation, it has been hijacked by woman-hating extremists who will even attack a rape crisis centre.

I don’t think you can ever call people cowardly who call by-elections.

It’s a big gamble by him, but if he wins, we can move on.

Coming together to watch World Cup games on free tv is an irreplaceable feeling. Moving those moments behind an internet paywall would be unpopular in communities like mine.

This Tuesday, MPs can show they have both a will and a way to protect our politics from the perception as well as the reality of impropriety.

She’s a permissible donor, she donated to the party, and that’s the end of it.

It would be unforgivable for Labour to break yet another promise to those families.

Don't cry on national television. That was probably my toughest moment, or perhaps even tougher, seeing the photos of me crying on national television on the front page of pretty much every newspaper the following day

Andy will take over an economy that is much stronger than the one I inherited from the Conservatives just two years ago

People are impatient for change - I'm impatient for change and I totally get that people want to see their lives changed faster

He needs to stay laser-focused on those things that have always motivated him, have always driven him

It is important that when Andy walks through that door he has a worked-through plan, because governing is hard in Britain, and lots of challenges and shocks will come his way

It is yet another generational transfer of wealth that creates no new units of housing while rewarding those who built and priced condos that nobody could afford. It’s not only bad economic policy, it’s unethical, it is immoral, and it’s…