It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.

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

Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.