You don’t forget crises and neither does the Queen.

Well, I think there’s a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

I don’t have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere.

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn’t.

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces – destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

I think it’s extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, ‘No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,’ then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

I can’t legislate to change human nature.

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn’t even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.