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

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.

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.

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

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.