I think people have got to understand when a murder is committed on British soil, when innocent people have been put at risk by the method that murder is committed then we expect authorities in other parts of the world to co-operate.

...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an urgent challenge, not only a challenge that threatens the environment but also international peace and security, prosperity and development. And as the Stern report showed, the economic effects of climate change on this scale cannot be ignored, but the costs can be limited if we act early

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

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

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.

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