Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'

...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.