Strong views exist on both sides but I believe MPs voting for gay people being able to marry too, is a step forward for our country.

I want to be the voice of change and hope. I want to confront the big challenges this country faces.

I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.

The last thing I'd say is that you can achieve a lot of things in politics. You can get a lot of things done. And that, in the end - the public service, the national interest: that is what it's all about. Nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it. After all, as I once said: I was the future once.

I think in any organisation it's right to set out what you stand for, what you're fighting for and bring that together in one document so that people can see that the modern compassionate Conservative Party is in it for everybody - not just the rich

There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.