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.

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

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

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

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.