The Spanish PM rang me to say: 'I have the support of only 4 per cent of the people.' I said, 'Crikey, that's even less than think Elvis Presley is still alive.'

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.