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.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.

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.

When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

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.