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

There are those people who basically don't like those who are different. Now, that is a prejudice and it's a prejudice that's dangerous because in the world today, the world works through connectivity. It works through going across the boundaries, but faith and culture and race in a nation.

If you've got communities that feel they've been left behind, if you've got - as you do in Britain at the moment, you have communities that believe they're being changed by immigration, that they don't have job opportunities, and that they're disregarded and that they don't - they've got no stake in a future which embraces globalization, you've got to address that issue.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism.

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

I am a pretty straight sort of guy.