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

Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.

What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.

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

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.

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

Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.