What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

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

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.

Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

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

Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?