We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.

I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side.

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

I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers.

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

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.

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