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.

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

Rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

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