The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

I don't drive smart cars; I don't go on fancy holidays. All my money has gone on my kids' education.

I've always been the outsider. I've always been regarded as some extraordinarily dangerous figure. I'm none of those things! I'm just a middle-class boy from Kent who likes cricket and who happened to have a strong view about a supernational government from Brussels.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

Let's get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to Mexico as the U.K. has done to the whole of the E.U.? No chance.