I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".

Obviously it is right that the Afghans take responsibility for their own future in the end, but they need to know and feel that we are there as partners for them if they are prepared to make the necessary changes. But we should be in no doubt as to why we are in Afghanistan. We ended up there because terrorism hatched there erupted thousands of miles away in New York on Sept. 11.

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.