I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side.

The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions.

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.

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