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

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

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

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.

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

We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal state.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.