‘If Tories want people to vote with their hearts as well as their heads, they must take back words such as “social justice”, “welfare”, and “workers”’

‘Fake news, incessant trolling, and vicious caricatures have become the hallmarks of modern election campaigns’

The departing former Conservative MP reflects on his 34 years in the Commons

The Labour MP who has represented Edgbaston for 20 years also bids farewell with a warning to her party of tough times ahead

We must abandon food production subsidies to forge the kind of new trade deals we require

"After the Brexit vote I was thrilled by the feeling of being on the right side of history"

"I could not be clearer about the threat that comes from what I call the assassin’s veto: people who say, 'If you say that, we will kill you'"

"Death in Venice is the best book ever written about the nature of creative talent"

"Reg Prentice’s 1977 defection heralded the ascendancy of Margaret Thatcher"

‘Our rigid, unresponsive centralised healthcare system, designed by state-socialists and run by bureaucrats, serves neither patients nor practitioners’