We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

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

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.

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.

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

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

...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.