I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.

We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

Perhaps if England and Scotland together had one team we could at least beat the Germans.

I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.