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

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable.

I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.

They could have been removed. They could have been hidden. They could have been destroyed.

There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and operates with a completely different intensity than even 15 or 20 years ago. How do we have a proper conversation between leaders and country when it's moderated sometimes in a very partisan and inflammatory way? And the second thing is the effectiveness of our democracy. How do we get the right gene and talent pool in politics?

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.