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

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

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.

Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've got to buck that trend

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