The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered

I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.

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

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.