Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

I've always felt very proud of Wales and being Welsh. People are a bit surprised when I say I'm Welsh. I was born in Wales, went to school in Wales and my mother was Welsh. I'm Welsh. It's my place of birth, my country.

The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust

There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.

In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.