The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

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.'

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.

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

Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust....Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place.