Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.

I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses the boundaries of traditional - center-right and center-left have much more in common with each other right now than the right does with the center-right, and the left does with the center-left.

The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.