Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.

I think the people like myself who are in the center ground of politics and who think that center left and center right can cooperate and work together. Who don't like this sort of insurgent populism because we think it's not really going to deliver for the people, I think there's a big responsibility on us in the center to get our act together. And to work out radical but serious solutions to the problems people face.

What I will say to people is what you require are rules and not prejudices.

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

What is true about (ex-Iraq Survey Group head) David Kay's evidence, and this is something I have to accept, and is one of the reasons why I think we now need a new inquiry - it is true David Kay is saying we have not found large stockpiles of actual weapons.