I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there is the absence of intervention in Syria. And then in Libya, it's partial intervention. And that doesn't really explain why some countries that have literally nothing to do with the interventions in the Middle East end up getting targeted.

What we want to see is the development of human rights and greater democracy, not just because it is our system but because we think that's the best way that economic and political development go hand in hand.

If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.

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

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

The Iraqi elections struck a blow to the heart of global terrorism.

Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite sure what to make of me. I was a Labour figure, but I'd come from a very middle-class background. In one sense I offended both traditional right and traditional left. But I thought that was no bad thing.