The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.