The national deficit is not rising.

You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.