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.

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

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

Britain and Pakistan will jointly fight the menace of terrorism .. Both the countries are facing a common threat of terrorism and we know that Pakistan is even more committed to fighting this menace

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.

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