[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 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.

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

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.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side.

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