Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.