"Whenever I crop up in someone’s reminiscences, I find their memory irritatingly fallible"

‘Can some synthesis between the idealism of the Corbyn camp and the pragmatism of Labour’s moderate wing produce a winning combination?’

‘After 2010, the Liberal Democrats got steadily stronger on foreign policy, a field in which their polyglot leader was visibly comfortable’

"Employers are crying out for people with technical skills and real-world experience"

"The most radical health reforms will be made necessary in the next Parliament by events, dear reader, events."

"Governments really do not fix interest rates. The whole issue is an example of the popular tendency to exaggerate the role of governmental authorities"

"Because no one is talking about the exchange rate, we are in danger of locking ourselves into entirely pointless and unnecessary austerity"

‘Why have many people who support the idea of local property taxation come out against the mansion tax?’

'If the Chinese have shown cynical duplicity towards Hong Kong's democrats, the British have been guilty of self-delusion'

‘There is a much better way of reducing the deficit than austerity: get the economy to grow'