I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

We are a European nation - must stay one.

We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept.

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought.