You seem very well connected, sir. When they call you “a well-connected Conservative lobbyist”, I believe that's an accurate description of you, even though the Conservatives have tried to disown you in the House of Commons. They say, “He's no friend of ours”. Up until today they were denying you were ever even a member of the party. I think I heard the Prime Minister himself say that “we don't know this Varin character”. Now it seems like you spend a lot of time hobnobbing with very senior Conservatives on a regular basis.
On November 2nd, 2010. See this statement in context.