Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.

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.

There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.