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

I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.

Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.

The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.

There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is only now that the Iraq survey group has been put together that a dedicated team of people, which includes former UN inspectors, scientists and experts, will be able to go in and do the job properly.