A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.

People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.

Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.

We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.

I'm still getting my exercise at five o'clock in the morning, that's good. So far I've managed to hold on to a bike ride on Saturday or Sunday morning, probably at least two weekends out of three.