A lot of the politics that is going on left and right at the moment is more about a protest, which we should respond to. It's not often about a policy. And that's why what you get is this strange coalition of different views of what the future should be, coming together in alliance to protest against the status quo.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

My teachers used to call me a failure

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.