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

We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines through British history. Our commitment to fairness, fair play and civic duty.

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

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.

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

...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early