I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

I think the center ground have got to become the people of change again and not the guardians of the status quo. And that is the weakness it comes to in our campaign. You can see it in your politics, you can see it everywhere.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now.

There are people who are anxious about immigration for reasons that are perfectly sensible. They think it's uncontrolled. They think it's, therefore, arbitrary in its consequences, and there are some communities affected much more deeply than others.

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