I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.