All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

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

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.

If you've got communities that feel they've been left behind, if you've got - as you do in Britain at the moment, you have communities that believe they're being changed by immigration, that they don't have job opportunities, and that they're disregarded and that they don't - they've got no stake in a future which embraces globalization, you've got to address that issue.

I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election.