The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does the center revitalize itself? How does it develop the policy agenda for the future? And how do we link up people who have the same basic ideas and attachments to the same basic values across the world?

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.

I think it is having answers and not simply anger, and providing solutions that people believe will change their lives in a radical way but do it in a way that's sensible.

I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.