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.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

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

I think people have got to understand when a murder is committed on British soil, when innocent people have been put at risk by the method that murder is committed then we expect authorities in other parts of the world to co-operate.

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

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

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