Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.