You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel both a sense of responsibility and a deep sadness for those who have lost their lives.

If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.

You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.

The trouble is nowadays that parts of the media operate in a very partisan way. There's no point in complaining about it, that's the way it is. But let's be clear, a lot of it is driven by the views of a pretty small number of people, rather than a normal standard of journalism.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.