Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

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

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

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.

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