Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.

All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far more in taxes.

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.

We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.

I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

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