Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and biodiversity that contribute both to our standard of living and our quality of life

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

I think I made the wrong career choice

If what the science tells us about climate change is correct, then unabated it will result in catastrophic consequences for our world.

I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying that, from first to last, I never stopped fearing it.