No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

...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

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

We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions.

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

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.