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No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.

We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.

There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.

There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.