We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.

I think what happened with 9/11 is that people sort of felt that it came from nowhere. Whereas I think now we understand the roots are very deep. I say it's like revolutionary Communism, something that is going to have to be knocked out over a very long period of time. This strain of extremism continues to be very strong, whether it's in Afghanistan, or Somalia or Yemen, or any of these places.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

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