The IIFA Weekend has my unprecedented support. The relationship between India and the UK is long standing and one we would like to keep developing forever.

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

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.

I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.

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

I think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes in parties these things happen, but it is not acceptable and I do believe that what people now want to do is to debate the future - about policy - and I think the issues about what Tony Blair will or will not do are going to be left to Tony Blair

What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.