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I condemn it. I mean, peaceful protest – (is an) essential part of British life, but that’s not dressing up in costumes like this and disrupting people’s lives.

Go home, enjoy your weekend/get a job.

I did see an old chap, a pensioner somewhere with a walking stick. Look, I don’t condone any sort of that behaviour, but if anybody wants to have a quick whip round later, we are collecting for a new walking stick.

We as a UK Government, as the Prime Minister has said, have got to act and act more decisively than we have.

You know, the stories that people were telling me of medicines being blocked, children dying while waiting for vital life-saving treatment.

I just came out of this meeting talking about Gaza to people who've been there and are there on the ground. And frankly, it was horrific what is unfolding.

He has spent the week boasting about how he wants to cut the costs of his bloated civil service in Scotland, but at the same time he’s committed to wasting more taxpayers’ money and time on opening more of his fake embassies.

The SNP are forcing Scots to pay the highest taxes in the UK. Instead of using that money to fix the permanent crisis in Scotland’s NHS, restore standards in our schools and tackle the cost-of-living crisis, Swinney is splashing more money…

Some things are best resolved at national level. Some things are best resolved at regional level. Some things are best resolved at local level.

It's the complete opposite, bluntly.

That would not be my intention.

I've been very open about the fact that I think public sector employment will fall over the course of this parliamentary term, but fundamentally we have to deliver public services in communities with members of the public and in support of…

I’m going to run as an aspirational, entrepreneurial, forward-thinking Conservative candidate that is in tune with the city.

All of these rolling shocks for 20 years have been cumulative. And every time it feels like ordinary people are going to get off the mat, something else arrives.

If I fail to deliver this promise, I will take responsibility, and I will resign.

I will scrap the cap on homegrown British doctors.

I will scrap all interest payments on student loans for British nurses, so that those young Brits who want to work in our NHS, will be able to do it.

For a political party that don’t like foreigners much, they do seem to have a soft spot for foreign cash.