I've never ruled out the possibility of going back into public service.

The Donald Trump phenomenon in the U.S. is mirrored completely by the Brexit phenomenon in the U.K. It's very similar forces. And what is interesting to me is there are two different groups that come together, who don't really agree with each other, but have come together in unity against, if you like, what is perceived as the status quo, or - and certainly what is a more center-right or center-left type of politics.

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of fanatics that go and join and kill for a group like ISIS are measured in tens of thousands, those that support the wider ideology, I'm afraid, you measure in tens of millions or more.

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.