I haven't come to the conclusion that centrist politics is wrong or dead. On the contrary. I think it's very much alive - but it needs to be given a renewal, a revival, and a muscularity which it presently lacks.

There are people who are anxious about immigration for reasons that are perfectly sensible. They think it's uncontrolled. They think it's, therefore, arbitrary in its consequences, and there are some communities affected much more deeply than others.

Saddam was a threat, that the threat had to be dealt with.

We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.