People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

I still think the world is better off and safer without Saddam Hussein.

September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.

There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.

What I don't know is whether there is a way politically that you can beat away these, some of these populist movements because in the end I don't think they really do provide answers. They ride the anger. But they don't really have the answers. Or whether this is an experiment we're just going to have to go through first.