Mr John Major on Mr Iain Duncan Smith: "Among his supporters he has the active and enthusiastic backing of the wilder Europhobes in and out of Parliament. He should be warned: they are not pro-Duncan Smith; they are anti-Europe and thus anti-Clarke. He should ditch them speedily for they are electoral poison."
Mr Iain Duncan Smith on Mr Kenneth Clarke: "What do you do when Mr Blair comes back from the next European Inter-Governmental Conference when the party wants to go one way and you want to go the other? They will raise this every single time and it will break us up over the next four years. The only way we can settle this is by leading through the majority of the party who don't want to join the euro."
Baroness Thatcher on Mr Clarke: "I simply do not understand how Ken could lead today's Conservative Party to anything other than disaster. Time and again the Conservatives would be exposed as either hopelessly split or deeply cynical either openly rebelling against their leader or going along with policies they knew, and which others knew, to be wrong."
Mr Clarke on Baroness Thatcher: "When she appears in the election it is usually no longer, I'm afraid, our finest moment. Margaret has made the choice more stark than it need be."
Mr Clarke on Mr Duncan Smith: "I don't think there is anybody more eurosceptic in the party than Iain."