Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.

...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.

Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers.