Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

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

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit.

If you're living in a community that's become fragmented and left behind, there's not proper investment in it and so on, in the end, the answer is to make sure that we go and we help those communities, we educate the people properly, we build the necessary infrastructure of support for people.

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe