In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.

I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.

I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.