The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

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.

There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.

My department is not too big for one man, because I'm Superman.

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.

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