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

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.

Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.

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

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

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

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.