I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.

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

I think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes in parties these things happen, but it is not acceptable and I do believe that what people now want to do is to debate the future - about policy - and I think the issues about what Tony Blair will or will not do are going to be left to Tony Blair

The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.

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.

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 admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers.