"Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict." — John Major

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.