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

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?

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.

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

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

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society