Ken Clarke

"I don't think the Conservative Party could win an election in 1,000 years on this ultra right-wing programme."

"If a Brexiteer majority still wishes to persist in leaving, once we have made some progress and it’s obvious we’re getting there, you can invoke Article 50 again and leave fairly rapidly. To me, that …"

"At the moment I save the House of Commons from having Dennis Skinner as father of the house by 25 minutes"

"I wouldn't reject it if it was the only way forward."

"When we negotiate trade agreements in the future, we will be pressing other countries to open up their public procurement processes to genuine, fair, international competition. It would be totally rid…"

"No one has officially told me that I have lost the Tory whip. The fault’s probably mine. I’m notorious for only using my mobile phone for outgoing calls: nobody knows my London number and I certainly …"

"We are all in agreement about the principles of the national health service ...it should be provided free at the point of treatment, according to clinical need and largely funded out of taxation."

"All political careers are a rollercoaster."