Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

We know the problems, and we know the solution: sustainable development. The issue is the political will.

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

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.

The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.