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

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.

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

When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions.

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.