If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.

If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.

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 don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".

I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.