No one did more singlehandedly to smash the BNP in Britain than me.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

I have to confess I do have a slight preference. I do think, naturally, that people from India and Australia are in some ways more likely to speak English, understand common law, and have a connection with this country than some people that come perhaps from countries that haven't fully recovered from being behind the Iron Curtain.

There is no Left and Right any more. Left and Right is irrelevant... We need big change. We've got to get back control of our country.

I suppose, being in politics, it wasn't a job - it was almost a calling. It dominated my life, so I do think that probably a lot of people around me have paid quite a big price for that.

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.