The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered

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

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

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

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.

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

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.