This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

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.

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

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early

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