There are solutions that are proper, but they require the painstaking and difficult work of building alliances and also being prepared to analyze the problem realistically. And exactly the same thing is going on my side of the Atlantic as is going on your side of the Atlantic.

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

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.

The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.