I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.
It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.