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Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit.

Transport is not a ministry the ambitious should accept: no transport minister has gone on to be prime minister.

I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.

A promise must never be broken.

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

I won't allow any party to evade the question of which leader they support for prime minister.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.