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

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

What is obviously unfair is that the half of the population that doesn't go to university that's often on lower incomes pays more taxes in order to send other people to university, without them, you know, contributing.

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.'

The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.