I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.

Our task is nothing less than the creation of a new constitutional order for a new united Europe.

What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.

I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.

If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour.

We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.

My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.