But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

My view always is that we should learn the lessons, both of the last sort of 50 years of policy-making and it is possible to get to a foreign policy that is engaged and active without going back to where we were in the post-9/11 world.

People divide into groups where they talk to each other, but don't talk across the divide. And yet most of the challenges we face in the world today are challenges that are to do with trade, with technology, with how you make sure that people are properly educated, reform your health care system.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.