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

At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

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