After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.

Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

We have taken a situation in the U.K. because of concerns, for example, over immigration and other things, so Britain now is on a path out of Europe.

Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

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

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

They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.