We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do

The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

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.

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.

The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a route-map for the UK's transition from here to 2020...every business, every community will need to be involved. Together we can create a more secure, more prosperous low carbon Britain and a world which is sustainable for future generations.

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.

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