We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.

I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.

There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.

At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.

There are people who are anxious about immigration for reasons that are perfectly sensible. They think it's uncontrolled. They think it's, therefore, arbitrary in its consequences, and there are some communities affected much more deeply than others.

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.