I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.

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

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.

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

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger