We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.