The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.

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

Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

Enough of talking: It is time now to do.