NATO's got a vital role to play. It's very important that we protect NATO.

A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.

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.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.