Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

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.

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

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

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

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

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