The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right.

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration.

Their goal is to win the outdoor County Championship as well, but right now we re just trying to improve meet by meet.

If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoint ministers he or she trusts and then leave them to carry out that policy.

She felt Britain should not be so dependent on coal. She was in favour of building up nuclear energy to break the dependence on coal, and the main opposition to nuclear came from the environment movement. Mrs. Thatcher thought she could trap them with the carbon emissions argument.