We have taken a situation in the U.K. because of concerns, for example, over immigration and other things, so Britain now is on a path out of Europe.

I think I made the wrong career choice

Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does the center revitalize itself? How does it develop the policy agenda for the future? And how do we link up people who have the same basic ideas and attachments to the same basic values across the world?

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

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.