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

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.