Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

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

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?